Review Thesis
Reviewed By :Ajah Rosidah
Title
: Role of Antonymy Relations in Semantic Judgments
Post By : Arnold L. Glass
Rutgers—The State University
Keith J. Holyoak University of Michigan
John I. Kiger Rutgers—The State University
Pages :
9 pages
Semantics about Antonymy
We have known that an antonymy is the opposite of meaning
between a word and the other word in the same part of speech, and we have known
some word has the opposite.
and do you want to know about some opposite
words? Arnold L. Glass, Keith J. Holyoak and John I. Kiger discuss about antonymy
based on experiment metodology.
Types of antonymy
1.
Gradable
antonymy
Gradable
antonymy is a general antonymy, and can be measured .
Example:
dry - wet
Young -old
Easy – difficult
Big – small
2.complementary
antonymy
Complementary antonymy is the meaning of
the word is absolute.
Example: on
- off
Yes
- no
Male
- female
3.Relational antonymy
This type
is between two words have relation, and there is not positive and negative from word this type only the relation.
Example : husband
- wife
Parent - child
Teacher – student
4.Multiple
antonymy
This type is about word has more than one
opposition, it is mean one word has the opposite, and not only one opposite.
Example : the opposite of happy, can be sad,
angry, disappointed, or disgruntled.
Strengness and
weakness of this article is :
This article has many example and easy to understand and from it we can
know some opposite word,furthermore there are some explanation of the language
difficult to understand.
conclusion
word is not only have synonym but have antonym also, but not all words
have an antonym, antonymy has types, and not only one type.
