Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lexical Semantics
- Puns
- A bad joke
- eg. Broken puppet for
sale, no strings attatched,
- Idioms
- Well known
phrases.
- eg. Put to sleep
- Euphemism
- Making something out to be less
rude then it is.
- Little Ladies
room
- Metaphors
- When a word is
applied to another
word
- eg. Life is a roller
coaster.
- Similies
- When something is
compared to something
- eg. The car was as
shiny as the sea.
- Rhetorical Questions
- Questions which are asked
where no answer is needed
- eg. "What do you think?
- Synonyms
- Taboo Lexis
- Neologism
- Recently made
words only just
coming into use..
- e.g. YOLO
- Hyperbole
- Any form of
unlikely
exaggeration
- eg. Most Beautiful
- Unusual Collocation
- Words that would not
usually go together
- eg. Bitter Sweet.
- Field Specific Lexis
- Words which are
only found with a
certain topic
- eg. Teams and Sports
- Collocation
- Words which are
usually found together.
- eg. Ice cold
- Lexical Field
- A theme which goes
throughout a text.
- eg. War
- Dysphemism
- Making something
out to be worse
then it is.
- eg. Sleeping with
the fishes
- Ambiguity
- Things with more
than one meaning
- A passerby helped dog
bite victim
- Connotation
- Words which link
to other words
- eg. Cats, Dogs,
Fish all
connotate to
Animals,