Vocabulary
ambiguous двусмысленный
arbitrary произвольный
back-formation, reversion обратное словообразование
blend сочетаться
cohesion сцепление
contribute способствовать
correlation соотношение
enigmatic загадочный
homogeneous однородный
hyphenated дефисный, через дефис
misleading вводящий в заблуждение
onomatopoeia ономатопея, звукоподражание
overabundance избыток
preserve сохранять
reduplication удвоение
gradational reduplication частичное повторение
semi-affixes полуаффиксы
subconscious подсознание
subtraction вычитание
trace след, отпечаток
Lecture 8
What is “Meaning”?
(pp. 129-142)
Meaning.
Semantics.
Polysemy.
Two levels of analysis.
Types of semantic components.
Meaning and context.
Different meanings and different usages.
Meaning
The very function of the word as a unit of communication is made possible by its possessing a meaning. Therefore, among the word’s various characteristics, meaning is the most important. Meaning can be described as a component of the word through which a concept is communicated, in this way endowing the word with the ability of denoting real objects, qualities, actions and abstract notions. The relationships between referent (object etc. denoted by the word), concept and word are represented by the triangle:
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