The Relevance of the English Antonyms

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10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.87How to use a DOI?

Keywords

contrary antonym; complementary antonym; converse antonym; semantic field theory; hyponymy theory; componential analysis theory

Abstract

Antonym has been a hot issue in semantic study. There are three types of English antonyms: contrary antonym, complementary antonym and converse antonym. According to the traditional linguistics, antonyms are totally opposite in meaning. This paper will challenge this traditional view and explore the relevance of antonyms following the three types of antonyms, hoping to reveal the nature of antonyms in some degree. Then on the basis of that, finally this paper will draw some criterions of English antonyms.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016)
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