What does xenonymy mean?
Xenonymy means The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words..
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The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words..
Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.
The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.
A lexicon can therefore be said to correspond more to a dynamic system of relations: a) syntagmatic sense relations between lexical units in the same string, ie philonymy, xenonymy, tautonymy; b) paradigmatic sense relations between lexical units occurring in a given combination, and a set of possibilities provided by the language...
Use xenonymy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Xenonymy means The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words..
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Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.
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