上下义词对英语写作的影响 词汇学书评.docx

Journal of Ningbo Institution of Education, Vol.11, No.5, Oct.2009Review of “On Hyponymy and Its Implications in English Writing”2014级英语师范专业 学生：陈雪姣 学号：201410014131IntroductionAs an important type of lexical relations, Hyponymy has gone through a long-term development in structural semantics. Compared with other semantic relations such as synonymy and antonymy, hyponymy is proposed later but it is still of great importance in linguistics. Hyponymy is refers to that the meaning of a more specific word is included in that of another more general word. It is the “kind-of” relation which suggests semantic inclusion. Hyponymy consists of superordinate and hyponyms, which the “extention” of superordinate includes that of hyponyms and the “intension” of hyponyms is included in that of superordinate. In previous studies, hyponymy is widely applied invocabulary acquisition but others aspects are little involved. However, besides lexical function, hyponymy has rhetorical and structural functions as well, which has instructional implications to English writing. This thesis focus on an overview of the background of hyponomy relation theory, including its significance and its relation with other related semantic theory. The author mainly discussed the revelation and the implications of hyponymy on the structure planning and word choosing to show its effective English writing.The contents and structureSense relationThere are three different types of relations between words. Saeed is pointed out that the relation between the word and the word is not like the dictionary shows a series of list, but should be more vocabulary as a interwoven network because some words exist different relations with other different words on the meaning at the same time. Therefore, we must grasp the relation of wordsmeaning in our vocabulary learning. That is sense relation.Sense relation, generally speaking, is the study of semantic relations of sense between one word and another or between one linguis