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Semantics Flashcards

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Linguistics context v situational context

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Meaning within grammar (co text) v meaning within situation

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Deixis

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The requirement of situational context to understand language

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Collocation

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The conventional pairings of words (spice and span)

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Idiom

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Group of deictic words whose meaning is only determinable through context

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Cliché

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Predictable or common groupings of words or phrases in a given situation

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Paradigmatic relations

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Selection at the word level: more related = polysemy (couler); less related = or homonymy (puce)

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Syntagmatic relations

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Selection at sentential level, built through word order

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Lexical paradigm

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Words of language

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Hyponomy: subordinates / hyponyms

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S - a given general word eg. arbre

H - a given more specific variant eg. Chêne

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Homonymy

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One form - multiple unrelated meanings (puce / pas)

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Homophony

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Two forms sharing a common phonological realisation

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Synonymy

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The state of being synonymous

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Denotation (synonymy)

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Denotes the same or similar things (eg fleuves and rivière)

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Connotation (synonymy)

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Connates a related meaning (eg saucisse de Toulouse)

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Stylistic (synonymy)

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Determined by register (eg mortel, homme, Mec)

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Antonymy

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Opposites

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Complementary Antonyms

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One implies denial of another eg jeune / vielle

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Converse opposites (Antonymy)

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Reciprocal or relational terms eg prof / étudiant

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True antonyms

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Opposite extremes of a scale eg plein / vide

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Meaning implies choice

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Plurality of possibilities key to differentiating meaning

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Linguistic relativity

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The existence of relative aspects of different languages

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Linguistic determinism

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The effect of LR on thought, action, character

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Pragmatics and speech act theory:
Locutionary act
Illocutionary force
Perlocuationary force

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What is said
What is meant
What the outcome is

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