Semantic

field

6.6 semantic field

What semantic field is The use of semantic field The features of semantic field

What is semantic field

Exercise:
Put the word into proper group according to their features

jazz music designer rock n roll film nurse pop painting teacher

art Music painting music film

job

Jazz

pop

Nurse teacher designer

rock n roll

a term to refer to the phenomenon that vocabulary is an integrated system interrelated in sense and can be divided into semantically related sets or fields.

Whats the practical use of it ?

They just break the tradition of arranging words by alphabet. Instead, words are organized together according to their meaning.

Words of the semantic field are related by the same concept

According to the theory of semantic field, the meaning of a word is decided by its relationships with other words in the same semantic field.

Every word can be put into at least one semantic field Jobs Vegetables Tools Landscapes weather

woman

Sexy attractive

hot
Cold chilly cool

weather

She is not guilt. She hasnt committed anything wrong.

She is innocent.
She is very pure and naive.

The features of semantic field

1, Since the vocabulary of a language is in constant change, so is the semantic field

female unmarried married neutral

male unmarried Mr married neutral

female

male

Miss Mrs _

Miss Mrs Ms
Mr

2. The semantic field of the same concept may not have the same members in different languages.

uncle

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! u o y nk