Advanced Russian EFL Learners’ Awareness of Idiomatic Synonymy, Antonymy, and Polysemy
Foreign language acquisition is notoriously constrained by learners’ lack of awareness of the systemic relations that are obtained among stable multiple-unit lexical items.
Elena Nikulina, Nataliya Lavrova
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Is Black Always the Opposite of White? An Investigation on the Comprehension of Antonyms in People with Schizophrenia and in Healthy Participants [PDF]
The present investigation sought to expand our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the recognition of antonyms and to evaluate whether these processes differed in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls.
Cristina Cacciari +6 more
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The article examines the problem of antonymy as one of the key mechanisms of cognitive and axiological conceptualization in philosophical‑religious discourse, using as its material Abu Nasr al‑Farabi’s treatise “Maqālat ar‑rafīqa fī uṣūl ʿilm aṭ‑ṭabīʿa”.
Ф. Мамедова +3 more
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A Cross-Linguistic Study of Lexical and Derived Antonymy
Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their formal encoding, whether the ...
Carl Börstell +2 more
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Musterbildung und Musterproduktivität innerhalb phraseologischer Makroparadigmen des Typs in der Klemme sein [PDF]
The object of the contribution is the action-type-related, synonymous and antonymous variance of the idioms of the type “in der Klemme sein”, which is thematized against the background of the traditional phraseological and construction-grammatical ...
Barbara Komenda-Earle
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Lexical-Grammatical Means of Expressing Oppositivity in an English Literary Text
The article considers the notional nature and peculiarities of genus-species relations between the phenomena of opposition and oppositivity ; it also deals with the lexical-and-grammatica ways of expressing the latter in an English literary text.
Larisa N. Lunkova, Julia I. Frolova
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Du paradigme vers le syntagme — l’antonymie adjectivale : quelques remarques
This paper raises and discusses the relation of antonymy in adjectives. Antonymy is considered to play an important role in organizing mental lexicon. This relation defined often in logical terms stands for paradigmatic relation, as presented in WordNet.
Magdalena Perz
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Qualities and “Anti-Qualities” of Speech: Representation in Ideographic Dictionary
The study of speech from a communicative point of view, namely its communicatively significant qualities, the implementation of the functions of communication and influence, is important primarily in the cultural and speech aspect.
T. M. Voronina
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Associative relations of Serbian adjectives in the free association verbal test [PDF]
Previous research on the associative relations of adjectives is not unanimous in terms of whether participants more often respond by using nouns or adjectives in free association tests.
Jakić-Šimšić Milena M.
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Semantic structure of the term and semantic oppositions in musical terminology (drawing on the English and Russian language material) [PDF]
The analysis of the semantics and semantic oppositions of terminological units is one of the most productive ways to understand the systemic nature of terminological phenomena.
Aleksey V. Razduev +1 more
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