Talking about Semantics in the term of Dimensions of Meaning and its associates.

1. Dimensions
of
Meaning
Arranged by:
Hadena Adipta
Hartarto
Muhamad Ario

2. Dimensions of Meaning
– Reference and Denotation
– Connotation
– Sense Relation
– Lexical and Grammatical Meaning
a. Homonymy and Polysemous
b. Lexical Ambiguity
– Sentence Meaning

3. What is Dimensions of Meaning?
– Is any linguistic expression that has a relation between
the utterance and the thing(s) or person(s) that being
referenced, in a language.

4. What is Reference and Denotation?
– Reference is a relation between a word that associated with its concept, and
referenced with the object.
– Example :
Dinosaur
Any extinct
prehistoric
quadrupedal or
bipedal reptile.

5. What is Reference and Denotation?
– Denotation is the literal meaning of or the actual definition of a word.
Recently, I never saw a beast
like this before.
(n) an animal, especially a large
or dangerous four-footed one.

6. What is Connotation?
– Connotation is the affective or emotional meaning that associated
to the expression itself.
He fought like a beast!
Fierce
Strong

7. What is Sense Relation?
– Sense Relation is a relation between word in an utterance or sentence, that
contributed and widen the meaning of its utterance or sentence itself.
–  There are two kinds of sense relation, they are:
– a) Syntagmatic : A relation that deals with how each word should be arranged
in order to give wider meaning.
A Giant Shark

8. What is Sense Relation?
– b) Paradigmatic : Where a word has set of possibilities and same sense in
meaning, with other word.
Mary has 3 kids.
Children
Son or Daughter
Toddler(s)
Offspring(s)

9. What is Sense Relation?
was
This is too naughty
That boy
kid
so delinquent
Paradigmatically
Syntagmatically
How it should be arranged.
How many
possible
words that
can be
chosen.

10. What is
Lexical and Grammatical Meaning?
Lexical Meaning
The meaning of individual
words.
Grammatical Meaning
The meaning shown in a
sentence by word
arrangement and
grammatical signals.
Eat
Ate
Eaten
Lexically
means
Put food into your mouth and
swallow it.
Let’s eat at the usual place!
He already ate this morning.
I’ve just eaten some fries so I’m not that hungry.
Grammatically
means

11. What is Homonymy and
Polysemous?
Homonymy
is the relation between
two words with identical
forms but
different meaning.
Fine
(Adj.) in a good condition.
(noun) paid a sum of
money as punishment.
Polysemous
A single word that associated
with multiple sense relation.
Body
Body of human, animal, etc.
Group of people (example:
Parliament Body)
Lexical
Ambiguity

12. What is Lexical Ambiguity?
Lexical Ambiguity
A possibility of word
to be understood
differently in an
utterance because its
potential meaning and
senses
She is looking for a match.
What Kind of
“match”?

13. What is Sentence Meaning?
A meaning that being implied by
words in sentence, that arranged
in grammatically pattern.
“One day, I was called by mom from
downstairs. When I got there, I just
realized that my mom wasn’t at home.” There was someone else
who called me that day.
“…realized that my mom
wasn’t at home.”
“…was called by mom..”
Implying

14. Conclusion
– Denotation is literal meaning, while Connotation is affection meaning.
– Sense Relation has two kinds of form:
1) Syntagmatically, or how it should be arranged into grammatically order.
2) Paradigmatically, or how many choice of word that have same sense of meaning
and can be chosen to be inserted into an utterance.
– Lexical Meaning deals with individual meaning of word.
– Grammatical Meaning deals with how a single word, can have different sense of
meaning in an utterance or sentence.
– Sentence Meaning deals with implied meaning that being uttered or stated in a
sentence.

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