Abstract —This paper aims to study antonymy in English texts. The significance of the study is presented first, then the definition of antonymy and its classification are elaborated with examples

 
 
 
Chunming Gao 
was born in 1979 in Jilin Province, China. She received her M.A degree in linguistics and applied linguistics in 
foreign languages from Changchun University of Science and Technology in 2006 and then worked there as a lecturer ever since. 
Her major research interests include applied linguistics and cross-cultural communication. 
Qianzhen Zheng
was born in 1992 in Zhejiang Province, China. She received her B. A. degree from Changchun University of 
Science and Technology in 2013. She is currently a graduate student in the School of Foreign Languages, Jilin University, China. Her 
major research interest is linguistics and applied linguistics in English.
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