Lexical cohesion Flashcards
What are the lexical ties?
Semantic field
full recurrences
partial recurrences
supernym
(co-)hyponym
(co-)meronym
synonyms
antonyms
paraphrase
ad-hoc paraphrase
metonym
synecdoche
What is partial recurrence?
partial repetitions and derivational variants of same word
ex: novelist, novels
What is semantic field?
words that share common semantic property
ex: writer, stories, book
What is full recurrence?
exact repetition and inflectional variants of same word
ex: story, stories
What is supernym?
general term or larger whole
ex: author or writer (for novelist)
What is hyponym?
specific type of general term
ex: novelist (for author or writer)
What is meronym?
part of a larger whole (supernym)
ex: book (part of series)
What are synonyms?
words with same dictionary meaning
ex: writer, author
What are antonyms?
words with opposite meaning
ex: good, bad
What is a paraphrase?
phrase with same meaning as a word
ex: producer of texts (writer)
What is an ad-hoc paraphrase?
words and phrases referring to the same thing or person IN THE TEXT
ex: the writer and novelist, the author, Joanne K. Missgeburt
What is metonym?
substitution of one word for another word closely associated with it
ex: to pen (to write)
What is synecdoche?
substitution of one word for another that it is a part of or vice versa
ex: harry potter (character name to refer to book series)
