Key Vocab
What influences an idiom?
What is: culture?
_____ meaning entails every possible 'association' or 'connotation' that a word might evoke.
What is associative?
"I drank the whole bottle" is an example of what?
What is: Metonymy?
A type of informal language used where there is not a literal translation of the individual words in the expression.
What is an idiom?
What covers the basic, essential components of meaning of a particular word?
What is conceptual meaning?
Beautiful and pretty are what?
What is synonym?
What is semantics?
What is: The study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
What is the difference between polysemy and metonymy
Polysemy is based on similarity and metonymy is when close connection in everyday experience also conveys a type of relationship.
Is the verb "get" a good example of Polysemy or Hyponymy?
What is polysemy?
EXPLANATION
..because it has various meanings such as to comprehend or take something.
Hyponymy is when the meaning of one word is included in the meaning of another.