1. *Thesaurus *Lexical and Semantic Fields
*Denotation and Connotation
*Semantic Differential

2. Thesaurus vs. dictionary
Definition
The purposes of thesaurus

3. Main Entry:
faith [feyth] Show IPA/feɪθ/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
trust in something
Synonyms:
acceptance, allegiance, assent, assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, constancy, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, dependence, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, hope, loyalty, reliance, stock, store, sureness, surety, troth, truth, truthfulness
Antonyms:
disbelief, distrust, doubt, misgiving, skepticism, suspicion

4. Phonological characteristics
Lexical or semantic field
links words to words in terms of
Phonological characteristics
Meaning postulates
Synonymy
Hyponymy
antonymy
Syntactic occurrence
(collocation)
Semantic field vs. lexical field

5. the way in which some words are often used together, or a particular
Collocation
the way in which some words are often used together, or a particular
combination of words
Examples:
to feel free to save time to find a replacement to make progress to do the washing up

6. refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition."¨
Denotation
refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition."¨

7. Connotation
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry, in contrast to its denotative meanings.

8. Semantic differential
The semantic differential is a scale used for measuring the meaning of things and concepts. There are two aspects of meaning: denotative and connotative. The semantic differential measures connotative meaning.
It expresses three factors or dimensions:
evaluation, potency and activity) )

9. 1-Evaluation (good-bad, positive-negative, pleasant-unpleasant, worthless-valuable, dirty-clean)
2-Potency (strong-weak, heavy-light, hard-soft, simple-complex, submissive-assertive, difficult-easy)
3-Activity (active-passive, excitable-calm, fast-slow, relaxed-tense, dim-bright, quiet-noisy)

10. ____:____:____:____:____:____:____
Lion
Strong
____:____:____:____:____:____:____
Weak
beautiful
ugly
Good
Bad
safe
dangerous
fast
slow
Industrious
lazy