Title 4. SEMANTICS - LESSON 1. WORD MEANING & SENTENCE MEANING.docx ✅

7.1. “darken”, “kill”, “beautify”: the verbs used to talk about the cause of sth 7.2. “hide”, “conceal” are synonyms - They decide the possible combination of the words E.g.8. Noam Chomsky’s famous classic example: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - This sentence is grammatically and syntactically correct, but semantically incorrect: + “Colorless” ([-color]) & “green” ([+color]) + “Sleep” ([-conscious]) & “furiously” ([+conscious]) + “Ideas” ([+abstract]) & “sleep” ([+concrete]) → Semantically anomalous ⇒ Anomaly: semantic rules are broken Identify the semantic features of the following words: 1. Shrimp 2. Coconut 3. Bottle 4. Table Which ONE semantic feature do the following set of items share? a. bull, rooster, drake, ram, stallion b. boil, roast, stir-fry, braise, deep-fry c. coconut, pineapple, apple, dragonfruit d. dahlia, iris, daffodils, apricot blossom. e. idea, love, charity, sincerity, bravery, fear 4. Semantic field: (Trường từ vựng) - The organization of related words and expressions into a system which shows their relationship to one another (Richards et al., 1987) - A set of words with identifiable semantic affinities (Finegan, 1994) E.g.9. The semantic field of the feature “adjectives describing human emotional states”: angry, sad, happy, excited, afraid, worried, etc.