Lexis and Semantics
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- Created on: 08-11-17 08:51
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- Lexis and Semantics
- Semantics
- The meanings of words, both on their own and in relation to other words in the text
- Lexis
- High frequency lexis
- Words that appear often in everyday speech
- Low-frequency lexis
- Words that appear more rarely, such as specialist terms from a field e.g. medicine
- Words and their origins
- High frequency lexis
- Fields
- Semantic field
- A pattern of words with similar meanings found across a text or texts
- Lexical field
- Identifies the main subject matter of the text
- Semantic field
- Denotation and Connotation
- Denotation
- The literal, generally accepted, dictionary definition of a word
- Connotation
- The associated meanings we have with certain words, depending on the person reading or hearing the word, and on the context in which the word appears
- Denotation
- Polysemic words
- Describing a word with more than one meaning
- Collocation
- Two or more words that are often found together in a group or phrase with a distinct meaning
- Semantics
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