I learnt a few new things this week in English, this includes Lexical Fields. These are a group of words that share meanings and associations. For example, basketball has different lexical fields, like: hoop, score, dunk, slam, court, bounce, dribble, etc. Also, I learnt that a connotation is not the surface meaning of a word, it is what it implies or suggests.
Also, I learnt the term GRAMPS. This is very helpful for analysing texts. When we consider the grammar, lexis and semantics of any text, we have to think carefully about what they suggest about the following: G-genre, R-register, A-audience, M-mode, P-purpose and S-subject. Using GRAMPS will make it easier to analyse text in the future.
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