Hyponymy as a contrast method in the internet game “antiphrases”

Abstract

© 2020, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. The study is based on the Internet game, using antiphrasespuzzles that are created by Runet users playing with precedent units and replacing all the words of the prototype with contrasting ones. The relevance of the study is motivated by the interest of modern linguistics in the phenomenon of the precedent unit. The object of the study is antiphrases and their precedent prototypes, in which contrasting word replacements are made according to the aspect-aspect principle. The article concludes that most often contrastive replacements are made for such groups of co-hyponyms as somatisms, coloratives, names of relatives, zoonyms and names of food.