Microsoft Word umk 3-kurs leksikologiya kunduzgi

Exercise 6: Give words homonymous with the following and say what they mean: Fare, flour, rite, soul, horse, beat, which, plane, gate, break
Exercise 7: The following are homographs. How are they pronounced and what do they mean? Bow - bow, desert - desert, lead - lead, minute - minute, row - row, rear - tear, wind - wind.
Exercise 8: Find the homophones to the following words and say what they mean: Rain, dye, cent, tale, sea, week, peace, seen, meat, steel, knight, sum, coarse, sight, hare, sail, sell, blue, beach, led.
Exercise 9: Would you expect the following words to be entered more than once in a dictionary (as homographs) of to be treated in a single entry (as a case of polysemy). First make a guess then consult a dictionary.
coach (bus, give training)
cobble (stone for paving, mend shoes)
fence (round a field, sport using a sword)
mount (ascend, mountain)
rook (bird, chess piece)
stable (firmly fixed, place for horses) ,

Seminar 11

Metaphor and metonymy

Exercise 1: Below is a list of expressions with the word "red". In each case, try to find a plausible motivation for the use of the word and argue whether we have more to do with a "linguistic" metaphor or metonymy or more with a conceptual metaphor or metonymy.

1. 
   a redhead (= someone with red hair)
   
2. 
   red herring (= something that is not important, but distracts from things that are important)
   
3. 
   red politics (= extremely left-wing, communist ideas)
   
4. 
   He was caught red-handed (= in the act of doing something wrong).
   
5. 
   He was beginning to see red (= he was getting very angry).
   
6. 
   This was a red-hot (= very exciting) project.