Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms

diplomski rad

• Autor: Dora Uštulica
• Mentor: Milena Žic Fuchs (mentor)
• Mentor: Janja Čulig (mentor)
• Član povjerenstva: Milena Žic Fuchs (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Član povjerenstva: Janja Čulig (član povjerenstva)
• Član povjerenstva: Marina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
• Ustanova koja je dodijelila akademski / stručni stupanj: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Filozofski fakultet; (Odsjek za anglistiku); Zagreb
• Datum i država obrane: 2023-01-23, Hrvatska
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI; Filologija; Anglistika

Sažetak

In this study we have aimed to examine the role of psycholinguistic variables in the lexical-semantic processing of antonyms. The focus of the study was on the impact of convention on processing antonym pairs, as expressed with the psycholinguistic variable of reaction time. The aim was to further clarify antonymy, not only as a lexical, but also as a conceptual phenomenon. We used a reaction time experiment to test processing of three different categories of antonyms. Namely, those classified, upon doing a corpus analysis to determine their respective frequencies, as highly conventionalized, less highly conventionalized and unconventional. Our experiment has confirmed that there is indeed correlation between convention, as expressed by frequency, and reaction time. We take that as just another confirmation of antonymy being not only a lexical but a conceptual phenomenon too, in which both the knowledge of the language and the knowledge of the world play an important part. Finally, we have laid out some of the ways in which this lexical and conceptual phenomenon could be further studied to get more reliable results to account for the observed effects.

• Ključne riječi: antonymy; convention; reaction time
• Jezik: engleski
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:777486
• Studijski program: Naziv: Anglistika(dvopredmetni studij); smjerovi: lingvistički, književno-kulturološki, prevoditeljski; Smjer: lingvistički; Vrsta studija: sveučilišni; Stupanj studija: diplomski; Akademski / stručni naziv: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (mag. philol. angl.)
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Način izrade datoteke: Izvorno digitalna
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup
• Datum i vrijeme pohrane: 2023-01-30 10:25:34