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Negotiating the Meaning of Grammatical Constructions With Some English Confusables

Negotiating the Meaning of Grammatical Constructions With Some English Confusables

The meanings of words depend on the way they pattern into pharses and sentences and how they are used in situational contexts, the development of a theory of meaning being the central programme of ’corpus semantics’. The meaning relations between the terms in grammatical constructions is as interesting as useful to study in foreign language teaching , so much the more as the surface structure can be misleading. Due to the difficulties and misunderstandings brought about by the English confusables (troublesome words) in text analysis, translation practice and oral interpreting , some lexical items (confusables) are analysed in this paper. We consider such an analysis very useful since confusables are sources of semantic ambiguity and translation traps.

Keywords:

semantic relation, grammatical construction, confusables, meaning negotiation, pairs adjoinment series,

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies-Cover

ISSN: 1305-578X
Yayın Aralığı: 4
Başlangıç: 2005
Yayıncı: http://www.jlls.org

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