SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS - INDICATORS OF EXPRESSIVITY
SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS - INDICATORS OF EXPRESSIVITY

Summary/Abstract: The major importance that the Romanian school attaches today to the cultivation of the language raises the responsibility of the teachers to the highest levels. They must make a common front in order to enrich, transform and nuance students' vocabulary. The most important role is obviously played by the teacher of Romanian Language and Literature. Synonyms and antonyms are active elements in the language as they increase its expressive potential. The student must be oriented not only to relatively new, unknown words, but also to some of the common ones, but which have a large number of synonymous equivalents. Deciphering the meaning of expressions, finding the opposite meaning by contrast and using them in different semantic contexts have a special formative value, because they demonstrate to students the lexical richness and beauty of our language, involve them in an active process of language acquisition, whose effect is none other than the development of communication, analysis and argumentation skills, necessary not only in school, but also in daily activities, in current communication. Literary texts present us with innumerable hypostases of the two quantitative and qualitative components of synonymy, of the richness of vocabulary. The writers' creation best reflects the entire richness of the language, with all the historical and geographical areas of speech, with the acquisitions and innovations that highlight its expressiveness, emphasizing the role of polysemy and especially of synonymy. Without the works of writers, our language would not be as rich today, because it would be limited to the template elements, modern, neological, avoiding synonymy and old, popular expressive constructions.

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