semantics

Question 1

Semantic change

Answer 1

• broadening, narrowing, shift
• elevation, deterioration
• denotation, changing connotation

Question 2

semantic domain

Answer 2

When lexemes can be groups with others that have interrelated meanings. For example, ‘saucepan’, ‘sauté’, and ‘dice’ all belong to the semantic field of cooking

Question 3

semantic patterning

Answer 3

figurative language: IM POSH PAL
irony, metaphor, oxymoron, simile, hyperbole, personification, animation, puns, lexical ambiguity

Question 4

lexical meaning especially sense relation

Answer 4

· synonymy, antonymy
· hyponymy and hypernymy
· idiom
· denotation and connotation

Question 5

euphemism

Answer 5

a word or phrase that masks an unpleasant meaning. They can serve a manipulative function during double-speak.

Question 6

dysphemism

Answer 6

a word or phrase that magnifies an unpleasant meaning, for humour, ro cause offence or to abuse. become “word food” is to die. “take a piss”