Lexis and Semantics

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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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