Sense Relations 英语词汇学--词义的联系.doc

PAGE  PAGE 6 Sense Relations Abstract: As the carriers of culture, the language is a tool that the mankind exchanged the thought each other. Generally, the persons thinking to rely on language and using language to express. Therefore, English vocabulary system a system of the English language system, the sense of a word in the whole vocabulary system is connected with each other. Or even we can say, the meaning of words in vocabulary system is through the mutual connection to the apparent. The relationship between the senses is multifarious. There are major types of sense relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponym. As well as we called semantic field. Key words: semantic field, synonymy, antonymy, hyponym. 1 Introduction 2 Semantic Field The definition of semantic field is a term to refer to the phenomenon that vocabulary is an integrated system interrelated in sense and can be divided into semantically related sets or fields. Words in each semantic field define one another. When a text (anything with words, whether it be spoken or written) has a topic or subject that a group of words relate to. If an article of writing included the words, such as heart, flower, love, music, passion the semantic field would most likely be considered love”. A semantic field of love and also the word may be regarded as flowery or even “feminine”. An ‘animal’ field which contains all kinds of words that denote animals, or a ‘cooking’ field which includes various words related to cooking, and so on. Let us look at some more examples of semantic fields: a. Vehicle: car, lorry, truck, coach, motorbike, taxi. b. Building: factory, hospital, house, church, apartment. c. Run: race, dash, scamper, scurry, scuttle, scramble, dart. d. Vegetable: cauliflower, eggplant, pepper, onion, tomato. 2.1 Function of Semantic Field We know that the meaning of semantic field does not exist in the word itself, but it rather spreads over the neighboring words, due to the neighboring words i