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1、Journal of Ningbo Institution of Education, Vol.11, No.5, Oct.2009Review of “On Hyponymy and Its Implications in English Writing”2014 级英语师范专业 学生：陈雪姣 学号：201410014131I. IntroductionAs an important type of lexical relations, Hyponymy has gone through a long-term development in structural semantics. Com
2、pared with other semantic relations such as synonymy and antonymy, hyponymy is proposed later but it is still of great importance in linguistics. Hyponymy is refers to that the meaning of a more specific word is included in that of another more general word. It is the “kind-of” relation which sugges
3、ts semantic inclusion. Hyponymy consists of superordinate and hyponyms, which the “extention” of superordinate includes that of hyponyms and the “intension” of hyponyms is included in that of superordinate. In previous studies, hyponymy is widely applied invocabulary acquisition but others aspects a
4、re little involved. However, besides lexical function, hyponymy has rhetorical and structural functions as well, which has instructional implications to English writing. This thesis focus on an overview of the background of hyponomy relation theory, including its significance and its relation with o
5、ther related semantic theory. The author mainly discussed the revelation and the implications of hyponymy on the structure planning and word choosing to show its effective English writing.II. The contents and structure1. Sense relationThere are three different types of relations between words. Saeed
6、 is pointed out that the relation between the word and the word is not like the dictionary shows a series of list, but should be more vocabulary as a interwoven network because some words exist different relations with other different words on the meaning at the same time. Therefore, we must grasp t
7、he relation of wordsmeaning in our vocabulary learning. That is sense relation.Sense relation, generally speaking, is the study of semantic relations of sense between one word and another or between one linguistic unit and another. That means sense relation is applicable to the level of both words a
8、nd sentences. At the level of lexical items, sense relation, like a huge network, bounds words together in various ways. At the level of sentences, the definition of sense relation is still explicable. From a micro-linguistic perspective or a specified point of view, sense relations it can be divide
9、d into synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy. 2. HyponymyHyponymy is the name for inclusiveness relation, that is, class membership. Technically, this kind of sensen relation includes the upper term and lower terms. The upper term (class name) is called superordinate, and the lower terms (the members) are
10、 called hyponyms. To sum up, there are mainly four features of hyponymy:a) Inclusiveness: it is the most distinct feature of hyponymy as it is defended as SENSE INCLUSION. However, this kind of inclusion can be interpreted from two different perspectives 一“extention inclusiveness and intention inclu
11、siveness. b) Transitivity: it refers to the meaning transference and inherentance between a pair of superordinate and hyponyms. This feature can be better illustrated by some compound words e.g. table-chair, kitchen-chair as the co-hyponyms of chair, inherit the meaning of chair from both word-forma
12、tion and semantic sense.c)Relativity: it means whether a term is a superordinate or a co-hyponym is a matter of relativity. Flower is a co-hyponym of plant, meanwhile, it is also a superordinate of tulip, rose, peony, etc.3. Hyponymy and Semantic FieldSemantic field theory is one of the most importa
13、nt theory in the structure sense theory. Semantics refers to the ownership of an activity or a group of words in the field of professional polymers. Lexical semantic relation in the same semantic field is more common, and hyponymy is closer to semantic field. Semantic field is a typical tree distrib
14、ution. Therefore, this paper argues that, to some extent, a group of hyponymy can be regarded as a micro semantic field or a unit of semantic field.Hyponymy involves sense relation between the class and the class members, which has a closer relationship with semantic field. The typical semantic fiel
15、d is distributed as a tree diagram that is the same with hyponymy. Thus, the relationship between words at all levels with different class of a semantic field is, actually, a kind of hyponymy.4. Status Quo and Problems in English WritingWriting, as one of English skills, belongs to language output a
16、nd contains the property of productivity. It has also been regarded as an important way to measure the comprehensive ability of learners. Some scholars and teachers think that writing is better than and even can promote the other three skills learning. In China, writing has caught much attention in teaching as it is regarded as the weakest skill among other English skills for Chinese students.Thus, writing is taken as a necessary part in those examinations.Writing plays
