Conceptual & Associative Meaning: The conceptual meaning is the dictionary concept of a word, for example "needle" means a harp pointed thin instrument made of steel.
But the associative meaning is the connotative meaning which is being associated with your past memories of a word. for example "needle" can be associated with pain blood, hospital, ... for different people.
Synonymy: It refers to two or more words which can be use in the same concept, but they're not necessorily exactly of the same meaning. for example answer, reply, response, ...
Antonymy: It refers to the words of opposit meanings, for example black ‡ White (direct opposition)
Antonymy can be divided in to 3 types:
1- Gradable: The adjectives or adverbs wich can be compered. For example: big & small
2- non-gradable: The adjectives or adverbs which are not comperable dead ‡ alive
3- Reversive: Those antonyms which are being associated with each other. For example: exist ‡ enter, pack ‡ unpack
Hyponymy: It's the relationship between the words which are related in meaning, For example animal and dog make the hyponym relationship.
The word at the higher level is called super- ordinate, and the word which the examples of super- ordinate at the same level are called co-hyponym.
animal→super ordinate
dog, cat, horse→ co-hyponyms
The Center Of Art & Cultural Education Applied Science & Technology Unicersity Unit 13
Professor: Ms. Raja
Zeinab Sharifi