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Diagram 3. Structure of
the lexical meaning
LEXICAL MEANING
Denotational aspect Connotational aspect Pragmatic aspect
Emotive
charge
Imagery
Evaluation
Expressiveness
Information on the ‘time and space’
Relationship of the participants
Information on the
participants and
the given language community
Information on the
tenor of discourse
Information on the register of communication
2.2. Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meaning
Words in a context may acquire additional lexical meanings not fixed in the
dictionaries, what we call contextual meanings.
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The latter may sometimes deviate
from the dictionary meaning to such a degree that the new meaning even becomes
the opposite of the primary meaning. It is the interrelation between two types of
lexical meaning: dictionary and contextual.
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The transferred meaning of a word may be fixed in dictionaries as a result of
long and frequent use of the word other than in its primary meaning. In this case
we register a derivative meaning of the word. When we perceive two meanings of
the word simultaneously, we deal with a stylistic device
in which the two meanings
interact.
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