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“SYMBOL AND REFERENT” These terms may clarify the subject. A symbol is something which we use to represent another thing - it might b...
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A. POLYSEMY Polysemy is the existence of several meanings for a single word or phrase. The word polysemy comes from the Greek wor...
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ANTONYMY, SYNONYMY, AND HYPONYMY A. Antonymy Antonymy is the state or phenomenon in which the words have the sense relation whic... -
Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fiel...
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A. COMPOUNDING Compounding is a linguistic phenomenon that might at first glance seem straightforward. Bauer (2003: 40) defines a comp... -
ACRONYMY Acronyms are words formed by the word formation process in which an initialism is pronounced as a word. For example, HIV ... -
1570s, from Late Latin onomatopoeia , from Greek onomatopoiia "The making of a name or word" ... -
A. METONYMY Metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon—not just a figure of speech—with a considerable role in the organization of meani... -
Proverb is a brief, simple and popular saying, or a phrase that gives advice and effectively embodies a commonplace truth based on practi... -
Affixation Affixation is the adding of bound morphemes to the base to base to form a word. The adding of the bound morphemes i...
