Leksikoloogia
A word typically has not one meaning but several.
Fading- an old sense of a word fades away- dies
Radiation- a new sense of words are created.
Extention of meaning- widened meanings. Generalization
Specialization of menaing- means narrowing the meaning.
Denotative shift is movement in sideways, a combination of extention and specialization. Nt
gossip--godfather and idle talk.
Pejoration (worsening of meaning) deterioration
Amelioration- improvement of meaning.
14) Metaphor and Metonymy
Metaphoe- based upone a perception of similarity. Mouse- computer mouse and quiet as a
mouse.
Dead metaphore- flowerbed
Conduit metaphor-ideas and meanings are objects.
Conceptual metaphore- the essence is understaning and experience one kind of thing in terms
of the other.
Orientational metaphor- happy is up, sad is down.
Metonymy- is a word that is not called by its own name but by the name it is assosiated with.
Nt hollywood- we know it as a filmindustry but acutally it is a palce name.