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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Is there a terminology for this?
Often, when people speak in a foreign language, say, when a Chinese is talking with an American in English, they are not 100% aware of all the subtleties of that language. A case in point is that they don't know the different emotive effects that synonyms respectively have on the other. Is there a linguistic terminology for this?
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In The English Language , W. Nelson Francis had this to say: One obvious result of the fact that words do not have meanings as people have heads is that different people may have different meanings for the same word and different words for the same meaning. These differences may be individual or they may be associated with a particular group, class, or region.
- In The English Language , W.
- Nelson Francis had this to say: One obvious result of the fact that words do not have meanings as people have heads is that different people may have different meanings for the same word and different words for the same meaning.
- These differences may be individual or they may be associated with a particular group, class, or region.
- Individual differences come from differing individual experiences.
- They often lie in the area of connotation , that is, the body of emotional associations which a person has with a word.
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In The English Language, W. Nelson Francis had this to say:
One obvious result of the fact that words do not have meanings as people have heads is that different people may have different meanings for the same word and different words for the same meaning. These differences may be individual or they
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