英语语义联想中的确定性和不确定性调查

Investigation into the Definiteness and Indefiniteness of Semantic Association in English

联想既是思维活动,又是英语词汇学习策略。该调查研究得出语义联想中确定性表现为纵聚合关系中词的同义、反义和上下义关系和横组合关系中的同质性;不确定性蕴涵纵聚合关系中的直观性和横组合关系中的异质性。英语学习者把握语义联想中的确定和不确定因素,可以简化和具体化一般语义联想规则,有利于丰富和完善心理词典中的组块,从而提高英语词汇学习的有效性。

Association is regarded as a thinking activity, and a learning that definiteness of semantic association lies in the realization of sense relations my in the paradigmatic relations and homogeneity in the syntagmatic relations, ness in the paradigmatic relations and heterogeneity in the strategy as well. The present survey shows such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponywhile its indefiniteness includes intuitivesyntagmatic relations. Fully aware of the definite and indefinite factors in association, English learners can simplify and visualize the general rules of semantic association, which facilitates the enriching and enlarging of lexical chunks in their mental lexicon, thus the efficacy in their lexical learning can be improved.