Учебное пособие в систематизированном виде содержит необходимые для изучения курса лексикологии английского языка вспомогательные материалы: планы семинаров, определения основных понятий и терминов на английском и русском языках, темы курсовых

J. Gustav White
Discussion

1. 
   Types of connotations. Sources of synonymy.
   
2. 
   The synonymic dominant.
   
3. 
   Euphemisms.
   
4. 
   Antonymy. Types of antonyms.
   

Terminology
Semantic field is a part ('slice') of reality singled out in human experience and, theoretically, covered in language by a more or less autonomous lexical microsystem.
Lexical set is 1. a group of words more or less corresponding in their main semantic component, i.e. belonging to the same semantic field; 2. a group of words having the same generic meaning.
Hyponymy is a semantic relationship of inclusion. The hyponymic rela­tionship may be viewed as the hierarchical relationship between the meaning of the general and the more individual terms.
The hyperonym is the more general term.
The hyponym is the more specific word.
Paronyms are words that are similar both in sound form and meaning and therefore liable to be mixed but in fact different in meaning and usage.
Synonymy is the coincidence in the essential meanings of linguistic ele­ments which (at the same time) usually preserve their difference in connotations and stylistic characteristics.
Synonyms are two or more words belonging to the same part of speech and possessing one or more identical or nearly identical denotational meanings, interchangeable in some contexts. These words are distinguished by different shades of meaning, connotations and stylistic features.
Ideographic synonyms are such synonyms which differ in shades of meaning, i.e. between which a semantic difference is statable.
Stylistic synonyms are such synonyms which, without explicitly displaying semantic difference, are distinguished stylistically, i.e. in all kinds of emotional, expressive and evaluative overtones.