A Cognitive Synonymy : A General Overview
A Cognitive Synonymy : A General Overview
Identity :
Journal in the review entitled ‘’ A Cognitive synonymy : A General Overview’’ written by Majastanojevi in 2009 published trough online media with vol 7, page range 193-200, Collage of Applied Vocational Studies with the series Linguistics and Literature. UDC 811.111’373.421:165:194. Serbia E-mail: majastanojevic30@gmail.com
Abstract:
This Journal presents a general overview of cognitive synonymy from the cognitive perspective. The Method used is Verificate research, ie by analyzing the opinions and from the Linguistics expert froms that can’t be used or not.
Key words: Synonym, cognitive synonymy, sense, cognitive meaning, associative meaning, near-synonymy
Introduction:
In this section the author says that ‘’It would be imprecise to define synonymy as identity of meaning since there are no two terms with completely identical meaning. Therefore, Other definitions also arise with the phenomenon of two or more different linguistic forms with the same meaning called synonyms. In here researchers clarify synonyms into several types, namely:
1. Lexical synonymy has to do with bound morphemes, lexemes, lexical units and phrases.
Lexical synonymy is a sense relation that holds between two or more lexical units with the same sense in the given contexts in which they are interchangeable.
2. Propositional synonymy has to do with clauses, sentences and propositions. It can be explained by means of paraphrase when the propositional contents of sentences are identical:
Mary fed the cat.
The cat was fed by Mary.
It was the cat that Mary fed. (Cann et al., 2009, 9)
Synonymy is a paradigmatic relation that enables lexically simple units to have the same meaning as lexically complex units, and vice versa, e.g. ophthalmologist and eye specialist.
This article is concerned with lexical synonymy and lexical synonyms. It is focused on lexemes and lexical units. Phrasal synonymy has not been the topic here. In addition, the article deals with words that belong to the same word class, even though Hurford and Heasley (1983:104) claim that synonymy is possible between words belonging to different parts of speech (as between the verb sleeping and adjective asleep).
CONCLUSION
The general account of cognitive synonymy provides two possible definitions. The definitions have been presented. Both of them should be taken into consideration when it comes to determining the phenomenon of cognitive synonymy. Substitution of one cognitive synonym with another should not alter the truth-conditions of sentences which contain them. Both objective factors and subjective attitudes should be taken into account, as well, because lexical meaning consists of both cognitive and associative meaning. Various aspects of associative meaning give slightly different significance to the words that can be described in the same way (have identical descriptive meaning). Cognitive synonyms differ in various aspects of associative meaning, such as expressive meaning, stylistic meaning, collocative meaning, etc. In that respect, considering different argumentations, cognitive synonyms might be differentiated on the basis of different registers, styles or dialects they belong to, or by virtue of different connotations, collocations, etc. What they have in common is the same sense.
Advantages and Disadvantages :
This Journal is very interisting because discuss more details about Cognitive Synonymy. This Journal has more value because discuss in details by listing the Opinions of experts who then in the analysis so that researches draw conclusions appropriately. But behind the interisting article also has a deficiecy of the languge used is too high so it is rather difficult to understand some of the meaning contained from the word or sentence.
Identity :
Journal in the review entitled ‘’ A Cognitive synonymy : A General Overview’’ written by Majastanojevi in 2009 published trough online media with vol 7, page range 193-200, Collage of Applied Vocational Studies with the series Linguistics and Literature. UDC 811.111’373.421:165:194. Serbia E-mail: majastanojevic30@gmail.com
Abstract:
This Journal presents a general overview of cognitive synonymy from the cognitive perspective. The Method used is Verificate research, ie by analyzing the opinions and from the Linguistics expert froms that can’t be used or not.
Key words: Synonym, cognitive synonymy, sense, cognitive meaning, associative meaning, near-synonymy
Introduction:
In this section the author says that ‘’It would be imprecise to define synonymy as identity of meaning since there are no two terms with completely identical meaning. Therefore, Other definitions also arise with the phenomenon of two or more different linguistic forms with the same meaning called synonyms. In here researchers clarify synonyms into several types, namely:
1. Lexical synonymy has to do with bound morphemes, lexemes, lexical units and phrases.
Lexical synonymy is a sense relation that holds between two or more lexical units with the same sense in the given contexts in which they are interchangeable.
2. Propositional synonymy has to do with clauses, sentences and propositions. It can be explained by means of paraphrase when the propositional contents of sentences are identical:
Mary fed the cat.
The cat was fed by Mary.
It was the cat that Mary fed. (Cann et al., 2009, 9)
Synonymy is a paradigmatic relation that enables lexically simple units to have the same meaning as lexically complex units, and vice versa, e.g. ophthalmologist and eye specialist.
This article is concerned with lexical synonymy and lexical synonyms. It is focused on lexemes and lexical units. Phrasal synonymy has not been the topic here. In addition, the article deals with words that belong to the same word class, even though Hurford and Heasley (1983:104) claim that synonymy is possible between words belonging to different parts of speech (as between the verb sleeping and adjective asleep).
CONCLUSION
The general account of cognitive synonymy provides two possible definitions. The definitions have been presented. Both of them should be taken into consideration when it comes to determining the phenomenon of cognitive synonymy. Substitution of one cognitive synonym with another should not alter the truth-conditions of sentences which contain them. Both objective factors and subjective attitudes should be taken into account, as well, because lexical meaning consists of both cognitive and associative meaning. Various aspects of associative meaning give slightly different significance to the words that can be described in the same way (have identical descriptive meaning). Cognitive synonyms differ in various aspects of associative meaning, such as expressive meaning, stylistic meaning, collocative meaning, etc. In that respect, considering different argumentations, cognitive synonyms might be differentiated on the basis of different registers, styles or dialects they belong to, or by virtue of different connotations, collocations, etc. What they have in common is the same sense.
Advantages and Disadvantages :
This Journal is very interisting because discuss more details about Cognitive Synonymy. This Journal has more value because discuss in details by listing the Opinions of experts who then in the analysis so that researches draw conclusions appropriately. But behind the interisting article also has a deficiecy of the languge used is too high so it is rather difficult to understand some of the meaning contained from the word or sentence.
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