Compare the following pair of sentences and discuss how the sens

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Compare the following pair of sentences and discuss how the sense relation of hyponymy is helpful in productive processing of language.
(1)I met a writer who is the relation of a politician.
(2)I met a newspaper reporter who is the brother of Senator Buckley.
【正确答案】:In production, knowing the semantic features of the hyponyms and their superordinates can help us achieve vividness, exactness, and concreteness.It is not too difficult to judge that sentence (2) is better than (1), because in (2) the writer uses subordinates, newspaper reporter, brother, and Senator Buckley, which are concrete and precise, presenting a vivid verbal picture before the reader, whereas in (1) the words used are superordinates, writer, relation and politician, which convey only a general and vague idea.

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