11. Word as linguistic sign. Homonymy. Synonymy. Antonymy. False friends. Lexical creativity
ESSENTIAL INFORMATION TO DEVELOP
Types of Meaning
Lexical Meaning
Grammatical Meaning: definition and examples
Denotation: definition and examples
Connotation: definition and examples
Word Relationships
Synonymy: definition and examples
Antonymy: definition and examples
Homonymy: definition and examples
- Types: Homophones and Homographs
Key Concepts / Terms / Authors
- Lexical Semantics
- Semantic Fields
- Collocations
- Hypernym, Hyponym, Polysemy
Key Authors
- John Lyons: Semantics.
- Geoffrey Leech: Semantics and Pragmatics.
- David Crystal: Linguistics and semantics.
- Ferdinand de Saussure: Structural linguistics.
ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics.
- Leech, G. (1974). Semantics.
- Crystal, D. (1987). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
- Saussure, F. de (1916). Course in General Linguistics.
- Palmer, F. R. (1981). Semantics.
