Lecture 6 The vocabulary of n language as a System (continued)

4. Thematic or ideographic groups. Common contextual associations.

Thematic (or ideographic) groups arc groups of words joined together by common contextual associations within the framework of the sentence and reflect the interlinking of things and events in objective reality. Contextual association are formed as a result of regular co-occurrence of words in similar repeatedly used contexts.

Thematic or ideographic groups are independent of classification into parts of speech. Words and expression are here classed not according to their lexico-grammatical meaning but strictly according to their signification, i.e. to the system of logical notions:

tree → grow → green;

journey → train, taxi,

bass → ticket;

sunshine → brightly → blue → sky,