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| Article Name : | | | THE LINGUISTIC STUDY OF SENSE RELATIONS OF WORDS: A TOOL BASED APPROACH FOR POSTGRADUATES IN ENGLISH | | Author Name : | | | M.Somathasan , R.Saranya | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6216 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Semantics, the term coined by Bréal (1897) for the sub-discipline of linguistics concerned with the analysis and description of the so-called ‘literal’ meaning of linguistic expressions, is the top layer of the field of linguistics which is the scientific study of language. It is clear that an undergraduate in the course of linguistics has to develop the knowledge in semantics, too, to be successful in his academic and linguistic career. ‘Sense relations’among words is one of the interest-evoking areas in semantics. Semantically, all words are related in one way or another. A word which is related to other words is related to them in sense, hence sense relations. For example, the English words bachelor and married have the sense relationship of bachelor = never married.As far as the sense relations areconcerned, the semanticists are interested in synonymy, antonymy,polysemy, homonymy,hyponymy, etc. These are the different forms or kinds reflecting sense relations. | | Keywords : | | |
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