6 6 semantic field What semantic field is

6. 6 semantic field What semantic field is The use of semantic field The features of semantic field

What is semantic field ?

Exercise: Put the word into proper group according to their features jazz music designer rock n’ roll film nurse pop painting teacher

art Music film painting music Jazz job pop rock n’ roll Nurse teacher designer

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 ?

Words of the semantic field are related by the same concept . According to theory of semantic field, the meaning of a word is decided by its relationships with other words in the same semantic field.

Every word can be put into at least one semantic field Jobs Vegetables Tools Landscapes weather

woman Sexy attractive hot Cold chilly cool weather

She is not guilt. She hasn’t committed anything wrong. She is innocent. She is very pure and naive.

The features of semantic field 1, Since the vocabulary of a language is in constant change, so is the semantic field female unmarried Miss married Mrs neutral _ male Mr female unmarried Miss married Mrs neutral Ms male Mr

2. The semantic field of the same concept may not have the same members in different languages. 伯伯，叔叔 uncle 舅舅 姑夫

a h T ! u o y nk