#lexicology

[english-lessons-bolzano]

Lexical similarities between Slavic languages

Silvio Pasqualini Bolzano inglese ripetizioni English

[savagechickens]

Slithering.

[ethicallysourcedsustainablepolls]

What are everyone’s favorite words?? If you see this please tag some of yours

[ectoplasmaticbisexual]

My lexicology professor just used the way Lamb speaks (the words he uses in particular) in our lecture on descriptive and non-descriptive meaning. I almost bounced off the walls when she asked if any of us watch the show.

[lukas-broken-bow]

favorite word?

when I was a kid, it was ‘brobdingnagian’. now it’s whatever strikes my fancy at any particular time—today I’m liking ‘bucolic’.

[cripp-tid]

specific linguistics pet peeve but. i hate it when ppl post online about "[insert language but usually German/Japanese/North Germanic languages] has such a SPECIAL WAY with UNTRANSLATABLE words describing UNIQUE EMOTIONS that ENGLISH has NO CONCEPT OF" and the word is like. a fucking compound like schadenfreude. which English very much has. i have very exciting news for you about the word bittersweet

[noosphe-re]

Semasiology (from Greek: σημασία, semasia, "signification") is a discipline of linguistics concerned with the question "what does the word X mean?". It studies the meaning of words regardless how they are pronounced. It is the opposite of onomasiology, a branch of lexicology that starts with a concept or object and asks for its name, i.e., "how do you express X?" whereas semasiology starts with a word and asks for its meanings. The exact meaning of semasiology is somewhat obscure. It is often used as a synonym of semantics (the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and longer forms of expression). However, semasiology is also sometimes considered part of lexical semantics, a narrow subfield of lexicology (the study of words) and semantics. The term was first used in German by Christian Karl Reisig in 1825 in his work, [Lectures on Latin Linguistics] (German: Vorlesungen über lateinische Sprachwissenschaft), and was used in English by 1847. Semantics replaced it in its original meaning, beginning in 1893.

Wikipedia

[legally-i-am-death]

There is a point in every academic's life where, writing a professional and deeply informed paper, they look at the massive paragraph they're absolutely cooking on and think...

"What the actual fuck am I talking about."