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Direct linkSpector, Cecile Cyrul – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Understanding ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences is an important part of reading well, communicating skillfully, and enjoying humor based on word play. With this seven-unit activity book--filled with creative, ready-to-use activities based on jokes and puns--students will learn how to decipher the language ambiguities they encounter inside…
Descriptors: Proverbs, Activity Units, Sentences, Cues
Hatch, Evelyn; Brown, Cheryl – 1995
Designed as a textbook for language teachers and students of linguistics, this volume explores the system underlying three related areas of language: semantics, lexicon, and vocabulary. The first part is concerned with semantics and semantic analysis, including semantic features and feature analysis, semantic field analysis, core meanings and…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language
