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    The lexico-semantic level analyzes an author's choice and use of words and their meanings in a text. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning at various levels, including the meanings of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. It has subfields like lexical semantics which studies the meaning of words and larger syntactic units, and structural semantics which analyzes the relationship between meanings in a sentence. Thematic roles also analyze the relationships between verbs and their arguments.

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    The lexico-semantic level analyzes an author's choice and use of words and their meanings in a text. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning at various levels, including the meanings of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. It has subfields like lexical semantics which studies the meaning of words and larger syntactic units, and structural semantics which analyzes the relationship between meanings in a sentence. Thematic roles also analyze the relationships between verbs and their arguments.

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    The lexico-semantic level analyzes an author's choice and use of words and their meanings in a text. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning at various levels, including the meanings of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. It has subfields like lexical semantics which studies the meaning of words and larger syntactic units, and structural semantics which analyzes the relationship between meanings in a sentence. Thematic roles also analyze the relationships between verbs and their arguments.

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    Lexico-Semantic Level

    the lexico semantic level is the level at which a stylistic analyst looks at
    the author's deployment of words and their meanings in a text.
    According to Milmkiaer (2002:339)
    • the study of lexis is the study of the vocabulary of a language in all
    aspects.

    • Ajulo (1994:1-8)
    • says, many linguists have started to develop interest in lexical studies
    in English, perhaps as a result of the realization that “there is a need
    for separate level of linguistic analysis... to cater for certain linguistic
    patterns and regularities which the grammarical level... alone cannot
    take care for” (Ajulo 1994:5).
    SEMANTICS
    • the study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases
    and sentences
    Subfields of semantics
    • Lexical semantics- is concerned with the meaning of words and the
    meaning of syntactic units larger than the word

    • Structural semantics- the study of relationships between the


    meanings of terms within a sentence, and how meaning can be
    composed from smaller elements.
    • Roman Jacobson is quoted by Fromkin et al (2003)
    “that language without meaning is meaningless”

    The term is one of a group of English words formed from the various
    derivatives of the greek verb “semano” (“to mean” or to “signify”)

    In the disciplines of philosophy and linguistics, semantics is the study of


    the relationship between the signs of a language and their meanings.
    Three levels of language
    • a.) the phonetic (relating to sounds)
    • b.) syntactic ( relating to the way in which words
    combined grammatically to make sentences)
    • c.) semantics
    Lexis
    • describes the entire storage of words and expressions.

    • The term “lexicon” derives from the root word “lexis” and it refers to
    the list of the possible words in a language.

    Ex. “Mary Ann told Sean that she loved him.”


    “Mary Ann only told Sean that she loved him.”
    “Mary Ann told Sean that she loved him only.”
    • Ex:
    “The chicken ate the man
    NP V NP
    “The plate kicked the man”
    NP V NP
    Fromkin (et al) (2003) assert that one of the important ways of
    representing semantic properties is by use of semantic features. These
    are formal and notational devices that indicate the presence or absence
    of semantic properties by pluses(+) and minuses (-)
    (+) -presence/existence
    (-) -absence/non-existence
    table horse boy man girl woman

    animate - + + + + +
    human - - + + + +
    adult - + - + - +
    female - + - - + +
    • Thematic roles

    • Agent- the entity that intentionally carries out the action of the
    verb.
    • Experincer- the entity that undergoes an emotion, a state of
    being,or a perception expressed by the verb.
    • Theme- the entity that directly receives the action of the verb.
    • Instrument- the entity by which the action of the verb moves.
    • Source- the direction from which the action originates.
    • Location- the location where the action of the verb takes place.
    • Benefactive- the entity that receives a concrete or abstract elementa
    as a result of the action of the verb.
    • Jade saw a mosquito on the wall.
    Experiencer V Theme Location

    • Michelle hit the mosquito with a stick.


    Agent Theme Instrument

    • Maria handed the mosquito to Mary.


    Agent Theme Goal

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