Explaining the Meaning of Words: A Descriptive Study on Strategies

By Andreas Glombitza

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (English Seminar/Applied English Linguistics), course: HS Lexical Semantics, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to describe and analyze typical strategies employed for explaining unknown words. The empirical component is based on a small video-corpus comprising 4x6 interviews with native as well as non-native speakers of English, transcripts are included in the Appendix. The material is analyzed by means of a theoretical apparatus taken from lexical semantics and pragmatics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3638774244
• ISBN13: 9783638774246
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"