Microsoft Word lexicologiya o'UM. doc

 
semantic space:
a conceptualization of the universe of experience in which meanings 
and domains are said to be near or far from each other according to the number and 
similarity of shared components or the degree of cultural and/or psychological 
association of ideas between them 
set:
a group of units, e.g. words, which share some feature (semantic, grammatical, or 
phonological) in common. Where the shared features are semantic, the terms 
constitute a
CATEGORY
or a
DOMAIN
; where they are grammatical, the terms are a 
CLASS
; and where they share only phonological or spelling similarity, they are 
 
slang:
a special vocabulary, typically used by adolescents to distinguish themselves 
from adults and to avoid being understood by adults, often characterized by extreme 
figurative language and sound symbolism; usually very temporary sound symbolism: 
the use of special sounds either to imitate or to represent conventionally certain 
meanings, especially certain connotations; frequently found in ideophones and slang 
 
structure:
(1) the patterns and rules according to which words, phrases, clauses, 
sentences, and discourses are built up out of their constituent parts. This is the 
structure of a language. (2) the characteristic form of a discourse built according to 

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sense (1). This is, e.g., the structure of a sentence, of a discourse, style: the patterning 
of choices made by a particular author within the resources and limitations of the 
language and of the literary genre in which he is working. It is the style which gives 
to a text its uniqueness and which relates the text personally to its author. 
 
taboo
: which is forbidden, either because it is dangerously- powerful (positive taboo) 
or because it defiles or saps one's life force (negative taboo). Words are often taboo, 
in which case they are replaced in ordinary usage by
EUPHEMISMS
.