Semantic Field

语义场

Semantic field theory is an approach which developed in the 1930s; it took the view that the vocabulary of a language is not simply a listing of independent items (as the headwords in a dictionary would suggest), but is organized into areas, or fields, within which words interrelate and define each other in various ways.

语义场理论是本世纪30年代发展起来的一种理论，其观点是语言的词汇不是简单的独立词项的列表（如词典的词目所示），而是组织成一些区域，即场，场内的词以各种方式互相联系互相定义。