Language Exploration

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  • Created on: 10-06-17 15:48

Formal and Informal Lexis 

'Begin' or 'commence', 'friend' or 'aquaintance', 'food' or 'cuisine'?. You might consider the synonym (a word that has a similar meaning to another word) for each one to be posh, a form of lexical boastfulness. 

Denotation and connotation

Once enough people agree on the meaning of a word and are using it regularly, the word and its meaning can go into the dictionary. This will then become the words denotative meaning. Over time of course we attatch new meanings to words. The word 'wicked' for example…

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