Contrast (linguistics)

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Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such(a) as but or however, such(a) as in the coming after or as a written of. examples:

In the first clause, It's raining implies that the speaker knows the weather situation and so will set up for it, while theclause I am non taking an umbrella implies that the speaker will still get wet. Both clauses or discourse segments refer to related situations, or themes, yet imply a contradiction. it is for this relationship of comparing something similar, yet different, that is believed to be typical of contrastive relations. The same type of relationship is exposed in 2, where the first sentence can be interpreted as implying that by giving a party for the new students, the hosts will serve drinks. This is, of course, a defeasible inference based on world knowledge, that is then contradicted in the coming after or as a written of. sentence.

The majority of the studies done on contrast & contrastive relations in semantics has concentrated on characterizing exactly which semantic relationships could provide rise to contrast. Earliest studies in semantics also concentrated on identifying what distinguished clauses joined by and from clauses joined by but.

In discourse theory, and computational discourse, contrast is a major discourse relation, on par with relationship like explanation or narration, and shit has concentrated on trying to identify contrast in naturally presentation texts, particularly in cases where the contrast is non explicitly marked.

In morphology, 'contrast' is identified, when two linguistic elements arise in the same environments, and replacing one with the other creates a difference in meaning. Two elements that contrast in identical structures pull in a minimal pair.