Semantic features represent the basic conceptual components of meaning for any lexical item.[1]An individual semantic feature constitutes one component of a word's intension, which is the inherent sense or concept evoked.[2]Linguistic meaning of a word is proposed to arise from contrasts and significant differences with other words.Semantic features enable linguistics to explain how words that share certain features may be members of the same semantic domain.Correspondingly, the contrast in meanings of words is explained by diverging semantic features.For example, father and son share the common components of 'human', 'kinship', 'male' and are thus part of a semantic domain of male family relations.They differ in terms of 'generation' and 'adulthood', which is what gives each its individual meaning.[3]
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Semantic Feature Analysis Variations. Researchers have studied a variety of adaptations to expand SFA that you can try in your treatment: Use the word in a sentence after naming all the features. Discuss the semantic features in a small group or with group feedback. Describe the picture to a partner who cannot see it (barrier task).
Theoretical context[edit]
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Semantic Features Analysis Semantic Feature Analysis is a vocabulary strategy that uses a grid to help students explore the interrelationship of terms. While students are actively completing the grid and analyzing its results, students are able to identify relationships, make predictions, and master important concepts. This semantic feature analysis grid includes examples of mammals in the left column and features of mammals in the top row. The grid displays the features that are applicable to the words by using a plus sign (+) to indicate that the feature is present or a minus sign (–) to indicate that the feature.
The analysis of semantic features is utilized in the field of linguistic semantics, more specifically the subfields of lexical semantics,[4] and lexicology.[5]One aim of these subfields is to explain the meaning of a word in terms of their relationships with other words.[6]In order to accomplish this aim, one approach is to analyze the internal semantic structure of a word as composed of a number of distinct and minimal components of meaning.[7]This approach is called componential analysis, also known as semantic decomposition.[8]Semantic decomposition allows any given lexical item to be defined based on minimal elements of meaning, which are called semantic features.The term semantic feature is usually used interchangeably with the term semantic component.[9]Additionally, semantic features/semantic components are also often referred to as semantic properties.[10]
Usb mass storage driver error. The theory of componential analysis and semantic features is not the only approach to analyzing the semantic structure of words.An alternative direction of research that contrasts with componential analysis is prototype semantics.[9]
Notation[edit]
The semantic features of a word can be notated using a binary feature notation common to the framework of componential analysis.[11]A semantic property is specified in square brackets and a plus or minus sign indicates the existence or non-existence of that property.[12]
- man is
- [+human],
- [+male],
- [+adult]
- woman is
- [+human],
- [−male],
- [+adult]
- boy is
- [+human],
- [+male],
- [−adult]
- girl is
- [+human],
- [−male]
- [−adult]
Intersecting semantic classes share the same features.Some features need not be specifically mentioned as their presence or absence is obvious from another feature.This is a redundancy rule.
References[edit]
- ^Fromkin, Victoria; Rodman, Robert; Hyams, Nina (2014). 'Semantics: The Meanings of Language'. An Introduction to Language (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. p. 578. ISBN978-1-133-31068-6.
- ^O'Grady et al. (2010), p. 619.
- ^Nida, Eugene A. (1979). Componential analysis of meaning : an introduction to semantic structures (2nd ed.). The Hague: Mouton. pp. 32–33. ISBN90-279-7927-8.
- ^Palmer (1981), pp. 67–114.
- ^Bussmann 1996.
- ^Palmer (1981), p. 83.
- ^Palmer (1981), p. 108.
- ^O'Grady et al. (2010), p. 210.
- ^ abLipka (1990), p. 98.
- ^Palmer (1981), pp. 191, 198, 200.
- ^Bussmann (1996), p. 219.
- ^Lipka (1990), p. 108.
Bibliography[edit]
- Bussmann, Hadumod (1996). Trauth, Gregory; Kazzazi, Kerstin (eds.). Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics. Translated by Trauth, Gregory; Kazzazi, Kerstin (2nd completely revised ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN0-415-02225-8.
- Lipka, Leonhard (1990). An outline of English lexicology : lexical structure, word semantics, and word-formation. Forschung & Studium Anglistik (2nd ed.). Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN3-484-41003-5. ISSN0178-7861.
- O'Grady, William; Archibald, John; Aronoff, Mark; Rees-Miller, Janie (2010). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN978-0-312-55528-3.
- Palmer, Frank R. (1981). Semantics (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN0-521-28376-0.
Semantic Features Of Nouns
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