Meaning in Language

Unit 5- OPPOSITES AND UNCERTAINTY

ANTONYMY

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- Antonymy is a relationship of opposition between two lexical items. -There are several categories of opposition

Binary Antonyms:
The positive of one lexical item
presupposes the negative of
another.

Gradable Antonyms:
The positive of one lexical item
does not presuppose the negative of
another.
-They're relative; the opposition needs
to be drawn between similar items

Converse Antonyms:
A relationship of opposites from
alternative viewpoints.

Multiple Incompatibles:
Opposition is drawn between a set of
more than two lexical items.

Unit 6- CARVING UP MEANING

STEREOTYPICAL FEATURES
-Features that tend to occur in
all those entities that are truthfully
described as the lexical item.

PROTOTYPE
-Specific examples associated to represent the set of the lexical item.
-Do not hold for abstract terms. clarity freedom
-Are culturally dependent.
-work for certain levels of heirarchy. They
can be categorised, but there is no real
heirarchy.