| The lexical meaning is the content of the vocabulary. The change of the lexical meaning has been a hot issue.In the course of the change of the lexical meaning, the movement of the meaning is not the pattern of one replacing the ether, but the pattern of one plus the other. The expansion of the lexical meaning is the key trend of the change of the meaning. Meanwhile, some lexical meanings which no longer function die out.We hold that the lexical meaning itself has a power which drives the lexical meaning to mwltiply. This power comes from the essential property of the meaning梩ension. Tension is a mutual pulling force. It can be divided into internal tension and external tension. Under the influence of the internal tension, glossememe can consonstant.ly break and form a sememe Sememe can extend and gather together and form semantic field. Under the influence of the external tension, differential glossememe of some sememe disappear and so generalize a sememe; some sememe are repelled by the other sememe in the semantic field and then disappear.What we put forward the property of the structure of the lexical meaning梩ension, tries to reveal the reasons of the change of the lexical meaning and provide a reasonable explanation for a series of changes of the lexical meaning. |
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