Abstract
In the preceding paper, the significance and necessity, in English-language teaching, of structuring the senses of a word was pointed out, and a method for the structuring, in turn, is discussed in this paper. The senses of a word are structured upon the following premises. i) A sense of a word is composed of some semantic features. ii) When a new sense (b)) comes into being out of a sense (a)) (from the historical point of view), attention is paid to the semantic contrast between the two senses. From their contrast, a feature, or some features of a) and/or b) is/are extracted. The same process is applied to one pair after another, and each structure of the senses is defined. iii) The structure of a word is clarified through the semantic contrasts seen among the senses whose structures are defined.
