NOUN
- the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings
How To Use antonymy In A Sentence
- Having identified the discourse functions of antonymy in adult writing and speech, I'm now examining children's language to discover how and when ‘opposites’ are first learnt.
- Atlantic Blog identifies the antonymy for the typically academic Heidegger, the "ordinary business manager" Victor Kugler. Archive 2008-11-01
- The lexical structure of the domain is flat there are no hyponyms or hypernyms among ideophones (Watson 2001) there is only synonymy and antonymy Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- These links of similarity or contrast (antonymy) create lexical cohesion in a text.
- It will be essential reading for scholars interested in antonymy and corpus linguistics.
- We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
- It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised construction of synonymy and antonymy in discourse. AvaxHome
- Fresh, empirical statements are made about antonymy, and over 350 authentic examples of ‘opposites’ are recorded and analysed.
