A Thesis On Enantiosemy

There are presently some divaricated opinions about "enantiosemy". This paper discusses "enantiosemy" in four parts.A commentary on "enantiosemy" study. With combined what ourselves has learned about it, we briefly comment the specialties of different periods and the developmental direction on "enantiosemy" studying."Enantiosemy" is not a special language phenomenon. We prove that "enantiosemy" is not a kind of special language phenomenon from two aspects and disproof it from two angles ."Enantiosemy" is not a special lexical phenomenon. We choose the ambivalent words which are representative and unavoidable in the studying, to have a relatively deep discriminations for them, and the result indicates that those so-called classical "ambivalent words" are actually all not believable."Enantiosemy" is not a special glossary way. Through the superficial form of enantiosemy,we analyze and conclude that "enantiosemy" has no its own particularity but anintermix of ancient notes.A theoretic disproof considers. We suppose that enantiosemy does exist,but the fact be found is:l) There are not applications of enantiosemy in our language; and 2) enantiosemy is not producible and it has no analogy as well. So we consider that enantiosemy is not a special language phenomenon and the theory of enantiosemy does not come into existence.Take a view to the "enantiosemy" combining with linguistic theory. From glossary theory we know that character and language are different system, so it is necessary to clear up the relationship of grapheme and acceptation of a word and avoid the influence from the former to the later; We take the "enantiosemy" of verbs for example and farther point out that acceptation is abstract and general, materiality and generalizability of an acceptation are not on the same level, therefore we should make a difference between acceptation and meaning of morpheme rather than decompose acceptation by morpheme and regard it as the meaning of a word which can be independently used. Some concrete methods on enantiosemy studying are taken out when we sum up the studying fruits on enantiosemy by scholars of both past and present and what ourselves have learned.In the part of" 'enantiosemy1 and general linguistic theory", we make a farther analyzing of enantiosemy problems combined with some basic conceptions and principles of general linguistic theory which concludes:1) about language and speech, 2) about value, 3) about the synchronic and the diachronic, 4) about language system is different from character, 5) about different languages have different systems, and 6) changes of acceptation of a word has its reasonable basis because of the restriction of linguistic system.It can be summed up into two from above: the problem of language and speech, and the problem of linguistic system. We should distinguished the word as a unit of language from the character as a unit of literal system, different languages have no analogs among them, acceptation of a word is abstract and general, we can not confuse sememe and variants of sememe, acceptation is the result from control of system of acceptation. A sememe of a word can not have two central variants of sememe which opposites against each other at the same time, and a word can not has two sememes which opposites against each other, namely a acceptation of a word can not been extended to its opposite. So the theory of enantiosemy is not believable from the angle of linguistic theory ,too.Realistic significance of enantiosemy studying is expounded briefly in part four.