Sense Relations 英语专业词汇学论文.doc

1 S ense Relations Abstract: Sense relations are the meaning relationship between word and word in lexical system, which is the concept meaning of vocabulary. Sense relations have varieties of relations, mainly including s ynonym y,a ntonymy ,p olysemy , h omo nymy, h yponymy , taxonomy, partonomy and soon. Any word maybe in many relations, therefore, every poses ofone work in actually. Many sense relations represent the words in vocabulary ’s system are not a non-sequence gathering. K eywords: S ynonym y, Homo nymy, H yponymy , Taxonom y. Ⅰ.S ynonym y Relationship is synonymous with the word two or more lexical items with the same or similar meaning of the language phenomenon. Synonyms can be divided into "absolute synonyms" and "relative synonymous." The so-called "absolute synonyms" are those identical in meaning and usage in any context can be interchangeable synonyms. For example: fatherland-motherland, position performance of technical terms and some other synonym in the synonym of this nature are few in any language. Most are considered synonymous with "relative synonymous " that they have mon basic meaning, but there is always between some minor differences. These differences are mainly in the following areas: dialect differences: Life-elevator; railway-railroad, the former is British English, which is American English. Stylistic differences: employer-boss; fatigued-tir