Semantic relations

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1. Topic Sense Relation Presented By Hadeeqa Batool & Noor ul Ain Mymon Lecturer Miss Fouzia Aziz Minhaj college for women

2. What is semantics????

3. Semantics (from Ancient Greek: sēmantikos , "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics. ... In international scientific vocabulary semantics is also called Semasiology .

4. Other definitions o f semantics Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words . Semantics is the study of meaning that is used to “understand human expression through language”. For example: "Destination" and "last stop" technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.

5. Sense Relations S ynonymy Antonymy Polysemy Hyponymy Here we have a video to understand sense relations: Homophones Metonymy Homonymy

6. Synonymy Synonymy is the state or phenomenon in which the words that sound different {different in pronunciation} but have the same or identical meaning as another word or phrase. The concrete form of synonymy is called “synonym”. For example: Small = little Politician = statesman big = large

7. Antonymy Antonymy is the state or phenomenon in which the words have the sense relation which involve the opposite of meaning . The concrete form of antonymy is called “antonym”. For example: “Shallow” is the opposite of “deep”. The word pairs of antonym can be divided into several types: Implicitly gradable pairs (graded antonym) Complementary pairs (complementarities) Relational pairs (coverseness)

8. Polysemy Polysemy is the state or phenomenon in which the words that have more than one meaning. In other words , it can be described as multiple meanings of words. The concrete form of polysemy is called “ polyseme ”. Example: Simple With nothing added Plain

9. Hyponymy Hyponymy is the state or phenomenon that shows the relationship between more general term (lexical representation) and the more specific instances of it. The concrete form of sets of word is called “hyponyms”. Example : The lexical representation of: red, yellow, green, blue is {color} Red is the hyponym of color.

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11. Metonymy A metonym substitutes for the object that is meant the name of an attribute or concept associated with the object. Example : Gray hair old age

12. Homophones and Homonyms When two words pronounced in same way but their written form is different , the concept is known as homonymy. While the written form and pronunciation both are same then it will be homophones. Example: Tail , Tale homonyms bear, bear homophones