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Synonymy and Sentence Meaning Formation

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2011, 34(), pp.349-373
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Chae-hun Yim 1

1숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to inspect the function of lexical semantic relation at the level of sentence meaning. That is, the lexical semantic relations not only represent the semantic relations between words in lexicon, but also act as mechanism of sentence meaning formation. This paper focuses on synonymy of lexical semantic relations. That is, I defines the semantic functions of synonymy as as mechanism of sentence meaning formation. Consequently, it is turned out that antonymy have the following functions. 1) the rhetoric avoiding 2) the substitute 3) the emphasis 4) the semantic specification 5) the paraphrase and expatiation etc.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.