LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:3 March 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Investigation and Importance of Sense-Relations and
Semantics in the English Language

Mohd. Imran Khan, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper is aimed to highlight Sense, relations and Semantic field in English. Lexical relations, defined as patterns of associations that occur between lexical items in a language. It is noted that we describe the meaning of linguistic item by using other words. Sense is concerned with the intra-linguistic relations, i.e. relations within the system of the language itself, such as similarity between words, opposition, inclusion etc. Some important aspects of semantics are highlighted such as homonymy, synonymy, antonymy and polysemy, etc. On the other hand semantic field is closely associated with the notion of hyponymy in which the words in a semantic field share a common semantic property. This paper is quite helpful for teachers and students in understanding and learning vocabulary.

Keywords: Sense Relation, Sense and Reference, Antonymy, Synonymy, Homonymy, Homophones, Homographs Polysymy, Semantic field, English language.

Introduction

This paper is based on the Semantic aspects specially the lexical relations in English. Lexical-semantics covers theories of the classification and decomposition of word meaning, the differences and similarities in lexical-semantics structure between different languages, and the relationship of word meaning to sentence meaning and syntax. Lexical relations, defined as patterns of association that exist between lexical items in a language.

As we know, we can explain the meaning of a linguistic item by using other words. The relation of a word with other word is a sense-relation. Thus, sense is the complex system of relationships that grips between the linguistic items themselves. Sense is concerned with the intra-linguistic relations, i.e. relations within the system of the language itself, such as resemblance between words, opposition, addition etc.

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Mohd Imran Khan, Ph.D.
Department of English Language & Translation
Buraydah Community College
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
mi.khan@qu.edu.sa
muhammad.amu@gmail.com
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