Meaning of xenonymy | Babel Free

Definitions

The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.

uncountable

Examples

“Cruse calls lexical items which create⟳ such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call⟳ the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.”

“The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound⟳ poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.”

“A lexicon can therefore be said to correspond more to a dynamic system of relations: a) syntagmatic sense⟳ relations between lexical units in the same string, ie philonymy, xenonymy, tautonymy; b) paradigmatic sense⟳ relations between lexical units occurring in a given combination, and a set⟳ of possibilities provided by the language...”

CEFR level