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Monosemy
Characteristic where a sign has a single meaning
Monosemy means 'one-meaning' and is a methodology primarily for lexical semantic analysis, but which has widespread applicability throughout the various strata of language.
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Monosemy means 'one-meaning' and is a methodology primarily for lexical semantic analysis, but which has widespread applicability throughout the various strata of language.
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Polysemy
Capacity for a sign to have multiple related meanings
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Enantiosemy
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Monody
In music, a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment.
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Sememe
A semantic language unit of meaning correlative to a morpheme
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Pleonasm
Redundancy in linguistic expression
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Hyponym
Word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word