antonymy review article

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.

http://reasoninglab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Glass_Holyoak_Kiger.1979.pdf