英语词汇中的反义现象及其对词汇教学的启示

Antonymy in Lexicon and Its Revelations on Lexicology Teaching

在结构语义学中,反义是最为突显的隐含—语义关系。词义可以看作是词语相互之间的意义关系,而反义则是意义关系上的对立关系。反义有渐次反义、互补反义、关系反义等主要次类。很好地了解隐含—语义关系有助于英语学习者找到学习英语的不同途径。详细介绍反义关系以及反义关系如何应用到英语学习中特别是词汇教学中,是非常必要的。

Antonymy is the most distinctive implicational - lexical relation in structural semantics. Lexical meaning indicates the meaning- relationships between or among words, while antonymy shows the contrary or opposite relationships. Antonymy includes gradable, complementary, converse antonymy, etc. , which are correspondently different in structural semantics. Understanding the implicational - lexical relationship helps the English learners to learn the language well and find various ways to enlarge vocabulary. It is indispensible to introduce antonymy and analyze how it is applied to English learning and lexicology teaching in particular.