TKT "LEXIS"

TKT "LEXIS"

the total stock of words in a language.

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WHAT KINDS OF MEANING CAN WORDS HAVE?

KEY CONCEPTS

• DENOTATION - the meaning of words

• FIGURATIVE MEANING - imaginative meaning

• CONTEXT - meaning according to the situation

• COMPOUNDS - nouns made from two or more separate words

• COLLOCATIONS - words that often occur together

• FIXED EXPRESSIONS -expressions which can´t be changed

• IDIOMS AND CHUNKS

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NAME SOME IDIOMS

MORE KEY CONCEPTS

• SYNONIMS

• ANTONYMS

• LEXICAL SET - groups of words that belong to the same area

• WORD FAMILY -words that come through affixation

• FALSE FRIENDS - similar but different meaning

• HOMOPHONES- same pronunciation different meaning

• HOMONYMS - same spelling and pronunciation but different meaning.

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NAME SOME FALSE FRIENDS

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NAME SOME EXAMPLES OF COMPOUND NOUNS

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NAME SOME COLLOCATIONS