THESIS RIVIEW ANTONYMY SEMANTICS

Review Article About Semantics

Reviewed By  : Yulia Hariyani

Title               : Antonymy

Post By           : Carita Paradis & Caroline Willners, Lund University

Pages              : 22

http://portal.research.lu.se/ws/files/1615865/1718215.pdf

ANTONYMY

            Semantics is the study of a meaning, we known about antonym is the opposite of meaning between a word and the other word in the same part of speech, and we have known some word has the opposite.

 Carita Paradis and Caroline Willners discuss this article on a Antonymy from convention to making meaning, This article from used the experiment methodology,

The antonym that will be done on their research are:

1. Antonym In Dictionaries

         Which means the antonym in the dictionary, in the Carita and Caroline study that the majority of the dictionary in the dictionary found more as an adjective as much as 59%, while the noun 19%, then the verb 13%, said description and preposition only 9% .
In the adjectives there are names that are gradable and non gradable

Example:

Gradable: good - bad
                 Dead - live

Non gradable : male - female



2. Antonym In Corpora

         In antonym the corpora is not so identical that the important is clear and easy to understand, then shows different phrases, in antonym there are direct and indirect Verse.

Example:
 Directly: girl-boy / wet - dry
Indirectly: boy - female / wet- soggy

3. Antonym in psycholinguistic

       In this experiment the psycholinguistic antonym in question is to identify words with other word pairs, the degree of antonym is influenced by three parameters, namely that two words are literally but opposed, the dimensions of denotative opposition are quite clear, and the opposition of two symmetric words around the center of the dimension .

Example: dumb-stupid

4. Content, configuration and construal antonym

        It is antonym that has aspects of construction, text and discourse as well as aspects of memory and thinking. Antonimi, in this view, is a construal of thought and lexical items are antonyms when they are used contrastively to the contrary. Where it relates to events, phenomena, etc.


5. Categorization by the content structure

      Category by content structure where structured antonym structure categories are based on the forms of the antonym continuum good, antonym better, and antonym very well. In this experiment more experiments on the opposite adjectives. Research and search were conducted at the British National Corpus (BNC).
Example in search adjectives on the web: Beautiful, poor, big, fast, interesting, strong, wide, thin, and etc.

6. Categorization by construal configuration

       Couples contrary to meaning and meaning that have not understood all types of construal formation of the 3 main components LOC Content, configuration, and construal.
For example: "this camera is expensive" so the opposite pair actually means "this camera is cheap".



7. Conventionalization of the antonym pair

      Conventional antonym couples show that as opposed to couples requiring more specific and easy to investigate constexts. In this case the investigation in the dictionary is more adjective than the noun, since many adjectives exhibit a singular property whereas the noun consists of many properties. An easy example in the investigation is the adjective: slow-fast, Dead-Life.

      The Conventionalization also shows the meaning of abstract and concrete meaning. Examples of abstract pairs such as victory-defeat, advantages, pessimism-optimism, and concrete pairs such as lender-borrowers, buyers-sellers, heroes, bitches.

Strengness this article are:
The advantages of this article are many of the various researchs sources undertaken, thus adding insight.

Weakness of this article is:
The lack of this article is too much explanation, and gives only a few examples, so it's a bit hard to understand.

Conclusion:
Antonim is an oppositet of meaning and meaning, in this article describes various forms of antonyms, and this article explains more of the antonyms obtained in dictionaries and the web,