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Hyponymy: Special Cases and Significance

Authors
Panpan Cao1, *
1Foreign Language School, Sichuan Minzu College, Kangding, Sichuan, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 140464@scun.edu.cn
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Panpan Cao
Available Online 10 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Hyponymy; Superordinate; Hyponym; Special Cases; Significance
Abstract

The learning of sense relations in semantics plays a very important role in students’ linguistics learning. However, in the learning process, students feel very confused about some special cases of hyponymy and couldn’t explain them clearly. In view of this situation, this paper first reviewed the definitions of hyponymy and related terms according to different literature. Then, it summarized the major special cases from various sources and explained them in detail. Last, it stressed the significance of hyponymy in reading, writing, translation and cross-cultural communication. It is concluded that hyponymy refers to inclusiveness or a kind of membership relationship, in which a superordinate may be a superordinate to itself, a hyponym may be a hyponym of itself, a superordinate may be missing, hyponyms may also be missing and not every hyponym is of the same position in the relation of hyponymy, and that a clear knowledge of hyponymy helps students to see the difference of two languages as well as the difference of two cultures and benefits them in both language input and output.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
10 December 2022
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978-2-494069-27-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_10How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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