General semantics

What is a semantic field and why is it important in the composition of written communication? Give specific examples to support your answer. According to Brinton (2000) the term ‘’semantic field denotes a segment of reality symbolized by a set of related words’’, or more broadly speaking, refers to a group of terms that share a similar meaning. It was first established by German Scholar J.Trier in the 1930’s who stated ‘’the vocabulary of language is an integrated system of lexemes interrelated

INTRODUCTION The present research paper dwells on contrastive analysis of pleonasm in Ukrainian and Anglophone political discourses. In political texts in general and speeches in particular, ideas and ideologies need to be conveyed through language, words and expressions are used in different ways to affect the meaning. Language system has great potential of redundant language means which can be imployed in speech in various ways. Redundancy in representing meanings of notions is a basis for a pleonasm

distance) between H and the entire T of this case is low, due to the different lengths of T and H. T: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970 at the age of eighty. He was thus fifty years old when, as an unknown officer recently promoted to the rank of brigadier general, he made his famous broadcast from London rejecting the capitulation of France to the Nazis after the debacle of May-June 1940. H: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970. Generally, the lexical based methods work poorly for recognizing textual entailment

expressivism. Expressivism Expressivism is a non-descriptive (it does not use beliefs or truth-conditions to characterise the meaning of moral terms) semantic theory which holds that ‘’to make a normative judgement is to express a non-cognitive attitude’’ (Gibbard, 1990, 84). The distinctive expressivist claim is that we can give an adequate semantics for moral terms using non-cognitive, desire-like attitudes. This contrasts with cognitivism which holds that normative judgements are entirely descriptive

pursuit. Semantic change is often irregular and arbitrary as a concept, as its causes are wide-ranging and multi-faceted. However, critics such as Willem B. Hollmann now give weight and notoriety to studying semantics synchronically . By considering individual cases, one can explain some word changes and apply common rules. These often occur intra-linguistically or through common social or political changes, especially surrounding class conflict. However, although we can catalogue the semantic change

The concept of cohesion accounts for the essential semantic relations whereby any speech or writing is enabled to function as text. Cohesion is classified into different categories: lexical cohesion and reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction or what is called grammatical cohesion. These categories do not only have a theoretical basis as distinct type of cohesive relations but also provide a practical mean for describing and analyzing texts. Each of these categories is represented in the text

The language is one of the fundamental achievements of the human race. Its role in the appropriation of culture and incorporation of the individual to society, is a key instrument of the educational process. Its essence is to express ideas, needs, experiences and feelings through the written and spoken word, gestures, attitudes and behaviors. It is precisely through language that the child is inserted in the world and they are different from it. As in development go by an individual and affective

during treatment caused in the capability to perform parallel semantic judgments on original semantic tasks. Theoretical models of naming Why does training more complex, atypical category items result in generalization to typical items, while the reverse training procedure which is training less complex an typical items does not affect production of atypical items?. To clarify the potential mechanisms underlying the effect of typicality treatment, it is useful to concisely review theoretical models

the major elements of lexical cohesion. They demonstrated that lexical cohesion contain general phenomenon which we may term reiteration. Reiteration is a type of lexical cohesion which involves repetition, using general words, using synonym, near-synonym and superordinate.

kind of correlation between coherence and cohesion". 2.2Cohesion VS Coherence On one hand, coherence is considered a very general principle of an interpretation of language in context. It has a few number of formal linguistic features e.g vocabulary choice. And the relationships in a coherent text, deals with the text as a whole. However, coherence focused on semantic relationships at a primary level. On the other hand, cohesion has many formal linguistic features repetition and reference