Semantic `fields` Describe as accurately as you can the differences

Structures and Varieties of Modern Spanish
Discrimination of meaning/semantic fields
Semantic ‘fields’
Describe as accurately as you can the differences in meaning between the Spanish words
within ONE of the following English-defined semantic areas.
Pay attention to the strategies you use, or find used in dictionaries, in describing the meaning
of these words.
Try and provide a graphic representation of the ways the words in each list relate to one
another.
How satisfactory are the general notions given at the head of each list as semantic fields? To
what extent are they specific to English?
'PIECE'
'FEELING'
añico
bulto
cacho
lote
moneda
mueble
muestra
noticia
parcela
parte
pedazo
pieza
porción
prenda
terreno
trozo
convicción
emoción
hostilidad
opinión
parecer
pasión
presentimiento
rencor
sensación
sensibilidad
sentimiento
tacto
ternura
Reading:
Batchelor, R.E. and Pountain, C.J. (1992). Using Spanish: a Guide to Contemporary Usage (Cambridge:
University Press).
Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics, vol.1 (Cambridge: University Press).
Öhman, S. (1953). ‘Theories of the linguistic field’, Word, 9, 123-34. (advanced)
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