MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN Uzbek State World Languages University Theory and practice of translation faculty Theory and practice of translation/interpretation department [pic] In Lexicology On the topic: Shortening of words and their features Done by: Kudratova L. Group 309 Checked by: Muminov O. M Tashkent 2013 CONTENTS I. Introduction. 1.1. Common characteristics of the course paper 2.1. General definition
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intensification of some type structural or semantic property of a language unit promoted to a generalized status and thus becoming a generative model. SD must always have some function in the text‚ besides they bring some additional information. The conception that words possess several meanings gives rise to such SDS as metaphor‚ metonymy‚ irony‚ epithet and others. Thus‚ a metaphor is a conscious and intentional intensification of typical semantic properties of a word: “Oh‚ Rain”-said Mor
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Morphology in linguistics has to do with how words are shaped‚ and how the shapes of words may be systematically adjusted in order to accomplish communicative tasks. You can also think of morphology as the study of how meaningful units combine to shape words. There is connection between a word and a morpheme but a number of elements that can be drawn as either a similarity or difference concerning the two terms. In view‚ this essay will look at the similarities and differences between a word and
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In trying to understand language‚ linguists who study semantics have always been concerned with explaining the meaning of words in natural languages such as English. Several problems have surfaced from an examination of the various existing methods used to describe the meaning of these words‚ in particular dictionary definition‚ binary descriptors and referents. Context is also an important consideration when defining meaning. The dictionary definition of a word has been a problem because of its
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“the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meanings of its constituent parts plus its syntactic structure.”(1x) Combining this theory with a theory he previously had committed to‚ the referential theory of names‚ which suggests that a names’ semantic role is only to pick out an object‚ created a problem that can be seen most clearly in identity statements in the forms of A=A or A=B involving co-referential terms. For example‚ (1) “The Morning Star is the Morning Star.” and (2) “The Morning Star
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Mitchell‚ B.‚ Cunningham‚ H.‚ Prentice-Hall Inc.‚ Upper Saddle River (2009) Kambhatla‚ N.: Combining lexical‚ syntactic‚ and semantic features with maximum Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining‚ KDD ’08‚ pp. 426–434. ACM‚ New York (2008) 39–43. Association for Computational Linguistics‚ Stroudsburg (2012) Kozareva‚ Z.‚ Hovy‚ E.: Learning arguments and supertypes of semantic relations using
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is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations‚ relations between these meanings and the changes these meanings undergo. Stylistic semasiology is concerned only with those semantic relations and changes which form the basis of EM and SD. The subject-matter of stylistic semasiology is stylistic semantics‚ i.e. additional meanings of a language
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colonisers and the colonised. Achebe presents the theme of identity through the tribe’s cultural heritage and how it develops after being colonised throughout the narrative. Achebe presents the tribe as inferior to the missionaries‚ revealing a semantic field of loss of identity and the need to prove their presence. Beginning with the ‘undesirable’ tribesmen leaving the village “none of his convents was a man whose word was heeded in the assembly of people. None of them was of title…called efulefu
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The text under analysis is an essay titled “Knowledge” written by G.N.M.Tyrrell. It is an example of the argumentative type of an essay‚ because the author introduces a problematic issue and tries to influence the reader’s attitude with the help of reasoning; nevertheless‚ it contains instances of narration which is resorted for providing a factual base. The writer aims to make the reader think of the impact of progress and evoke consciousness about the use of knowledge in him/her. To be as convincing
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Cognitive process theory focuses more on semantic development. Sociocultural Sociocultural theory is how the language develops through social interaction. This theory consists of language socialization which involves more communicating and the proper linguistic behaviors. Another important process to this theory would be intersubjectivity which is where two or more think and say the same thing at the same time. Sociocultural focuses more on semantic development and considers pragmatic skills
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