Abstract :
Language, man’s beautiful creation, acts
as a means of social interaction. It is used for the
maintenance of the connection between individuals.
Language is a system effectively used by man for
the exchange of thoughts, emotions, beliefs, ideas
or feelings. For the more than two decades the
structuralism in the fundamental semantics idea has
tried to display that all classes of lexical relation
consequently one of the central concepts is to present
this uprising has been the thought of the binary
Antonyms. Saussure’s philosophy of language
made opposition to his idea of the binary
opposition, also lexical relation theory proposed by
John Lyons. The general features of opposites are
either gradable or not gradable. Grading involves
comparison. Belated ‘big’ and connate ‘small.’
Whereas, opposite pairs like a: maple ‘male’ and
pimple ‘female’ are nongradable antonyms. Such
couples do not involve comparison. In this study, the
attempt is made to explain the concept of the binary
Antonyms with Identity test of Irula language
speaker.
Keyword :
Binary antonyms, gradable antonyms, Non gradable antonyms, Irula language, opposite pairs.