Lexis & Semantics mindmap- key ideas
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- Created on: 23-05-22 20:23
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- Lexis & Semantics
- 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
- Field
- Words used in a text which relate to the text's subject matter- best located through the vocabulary used in the text- texts for audiences with a particular specialist knowledge will have words from that field. (eg. the field of medicine, the field of golf etc.)
- Lexical field
- identifies the main subject matter of a text eg. food in a recipe, money in an article on economics.
- Semantic field
- a pattern of words with similar meanings found across a text eg. 'bolt,' 'trap,' 'cage.'- a semantic field is a group of words that have similar meanings which may not be the main subject matter of the text.
- Lexical field
- Words used in a text which relate to the text's subject matter- best located through the vocabulary used in the text- texts for audiences with a particular specialist knowledge will have words from that field. (eg. the field of medicine, the field of golf etc.)
- Jargon (specialist lexis)
- special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand. eg. legal jargon, such as 'adjournment'
- Lexis
- Words and their origins
- 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 eg. medicine
- Neologism
- a newly coined word or expression
- Compound
- Compound words are formed when two or more words are joined together to create a new word that has an entirely new meaning. eg. 'sun' and 'flower' are two different words, but when fused together, they form another word, 'sunflower.'
- French/ Latinate lexis
- words derived from French or Latin, or both, are more rarely used, often seen as having a higher status and/or being more specialist.
- Abbreviations
- a shortened form of a word or phrase eg. LOL
- Initialism
- an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately eg. BBC, VIP
- Acronym
- an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word eg. NASA, LASER
- Semantics
- meanings of words, both on their own and in relation to other words in the text
- Denotation and Connotation
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