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Phenomenon of Homonyms.

Facultad de educacinParadigmas LingsticosProfesor Miranda Ubilla Horacio Members:Bravo Negrete NataliaGmez Corts VctorIntroductionIn your own language you know many words that sound is the same, but, it do not mean the same.

Semantics: The study of the meaning.Semantics is the study of meaning that is used to understand human expression through language.

Linguistic Semantics studies the encoding of meaning in the context of linguistic expressions.

- Denotation.

- Connotation.

The Semantics Relationship.Hyponymy. Words that share a general meaning but some features distinguish them. Ex. Hyponyms of Day; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Morning, afternoon, evening.

Synonym. Words that have similarity of meaning. Ex. Beautiful, Attractive, Pretty

Antonym. The contrary of Synonym. Ex. Fat, Skinny Old, Young

Polysemy. A word which has two or more entirely distinct (unrelated) meanings.

Homonymy . The relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning.

Difference between Polysemy and Homonymy.Polysemy: A word which has two or more entirely distinct (unrelated) meanings.Bank: 1. financial institution. 2. of a river.

Homophony: Different words pronounced the same but spelled different.ly.TWO- TO-TOO

Homonymic words.HomophonesHomographsWords that sound the same.Ship and Sheep.Words that sound and are written the same.Pot (weed)Pot (thing you cook food in)

What is a Homophone?Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.For example: "there", "their", "they're".

The wordhomophoneis made from two combining forms: homo-(from the Greek wordhomos, meaning "same")-phone(from the Greek wordphone, meaning "sound" or "voice")

HomophonesPear, Pair, and Pare

I pare a pair of pears.11

Are there any homophones in Spanish?

Song: The Homophones

Conclusion Are Homophones important?Is this phenomenon creation or purely coincidence?