English Lexicology Semantics

Author: Wang Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This book conducts a detailed tracing, sorting, analysis, and discussion of English vocabulary, its meanings, and semantics. Regarding the two issues of word meaning and semantics, the book evaluates various viewpoints and proposes that word meaning analysis and semantic analysis should distinguish between intraword meaning and interword meaning. For the evolution of word meaning, the book analyzes the essence of semantic change and proposes the phenomenon of cross-promotion between radiating change and chain change. It also clarifies and analyzes the seven classic types of semantics, suggesting that there are four additional types of semantics in actual English usage. The book also reviews psychological research on word meaning, elaborating on the theoretical foundations of various viewpoints, analyzing their successes and failures, and proposing that word access should also consider semantic transparency and the verification principle.