语言学教程chapter6 语言学chapter 7 semantics.doc

语言学教程chapter6 语言学chapter 7 semantics 导读：就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“语言学chapter 7 semantics”资讯，希望对您有所帮助，感谢您对92的支持! chapter 7 Chapter 7 Semantics Aims: ? To understand what is semantics and related theories about it, especially the referential theory; ? To have a general idea about the sense relations between words and sentences; ? To know how to analyze lexical meaning and sentence meaning. The subject concerning the study of meaning is called semantics. More specifically, semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic units, especially words and sentences. 1. Meanings of meaning refer to Hu Zhuanglin, 2002: 158) One difficulty in the study of meaning is that the word “meaning” itself has different meanings. Here are G.Leech?s seven types of meaning: 1. conceptual meaning Logical, cognitive, or denotative content. (the relationship between a word and the thing if denotes or refers to. In this sense, it overlaps to a large extent with “reference”.) Associative meaning 2.Connotative meaning What is communicated by virtue of what language refers to. 3. Social meaning What is communicated of the social circumstances of language use. 4. Affective meaning What is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker / writer. 5. Reflected meaning What is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression 6.Collocative meaning What is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of another word. 7. Thematic meaning What is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis. 2. Two views concerning the study of meaning 2.1 The referential theory (The naming theory) The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the referential theory. According to this theory, the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words, the words used in a langua