Semantic field

0709 汪丹 陈璐 张亚红 曾晨 杨光

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What semantic field is

The use of semantic field

The features of semantic field

What is semantic field

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jazz music designer rock n’ roll film nurse pop painting teacher

Exercise:

Put the word into proper group according to their features

Jazz pop rock n’ roll

Music film

painting

art

music

Nurse teacher designer

job

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.

What’s the practical use of it ?

罗格同义词词典朗文多功能分类词典

　 本词典把英语词汇分类编排和详细解释，是英语写作、翻译及增加词汇知识的必备工具书。它打破了传统词典按字母排列词目的旧有形式，而把意义相关的词语分类编排，每一个词目都列出释义和例句，让读者清楚了解同类词语之间的异同，并且能加以运用

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

. 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.

Words of the semantic field are related by the same concept

Every word can be put into at least one semantic field

Jobs Vegetables Tools

Landscapes

weather

hotSexy attractive

Cold chilly cool

woman

weather

She is innocent.

She is not guilt. She hasn’t committed anything wrong.

She is very pure and naive.

The features of semantic field1, Since the vocabulary of a language is in constant change, so is the semantic field

female male

unmarried Miss

married Mrs

neutral _

female male

unmarried Miss

married Mrs

neutral Ms

MrMr

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

uncle

伯伯，叔叔

舅舅

姑夫

Thank you!