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STUDY OF LINGUISTIC MEANING
Introduction
     To
 Semantics
   What is semantics?



   Semantics is the study of meaning. It is a wide subject within the general study of
    language.



    (how language users acquire a sense of meaning, as speakers and writers, listeners and
    readers) and of language change (how meanings alter over time .
   Symbol and referent

   Conceptions of meaning

   Words and lexemes

   Denotation, connotation, implication

   Pragmatics

   Ambiguity

   Metaphor, simile and symbol

   Semantic fields

   Synonym, antonym and hyponym
    The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning is constructed, interpreted,
    clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified negotiated, contradicted and paraphrased.




   Collocation, fixed expression and idiom

   Semantic change and etymology

   Polysemy

   Homonymy, homophones and homographs

   Lexicology and lexicography

   Thesauruses, libraries and Web portals

   Epistemology
   This is usually a single word, but may be a phrase in which the meaning
    belongs to the whole rather than its parts, as in verb phrases tune in, turn
    on, drop out or noun phrase (a) cock up.



Referential or denotative meaning

Referential meaning is primary while connotative meaning is secondary.


Theory of meaning, based on the first, is the theory of abstraction or referential theory,
also called the theory of signification.

This theory recognises the following three components of meaning:-
(1) the sound form or the linguistic sign,
(2) the concept underlying the form, and
(3) the actual referent, that part of the extra linguistic world
Connotative meaning is the communicative value which an expression has by virtue of what
it refers to.
EXP:

1. kill, murder, assassinate,
2. eat, partake, peck, wolf, devour,
3. Hindi marnaa, svargavaasii honaa, eN bolnaa,
4. khaanaa, liilnaa, bhakosnaa,
5. Bengali svaamii, bhaataar.

In the above sets of the words, we find that all the words of each set have some common
semantic features, which give their basic or denotative meaning.
   It is colorless and neutral. kill means simply causing death, whereas in murder there are
    some additional or supplementary features which determine its meaning.



   In the same way partake, peck, wolf, devour have some additional features. These
    additional features add some extra meaning to the basic denotative meanings.
   These features are called connotation and the meanings based on them the connotative
    meaning or connotation component of meaning.



   We are connotations added to words? when a speaker feels that the denotation meaning
    would not be enough to produce some desired additional effects like irony, joke, humor,
    euphemism and respect etc. he adds connotations to the words.
   The connotation component of meaning related to the emotive or expressive
    notion of the speaker or to stylistic values.

   Introduced into the language by individuals.
   Become socialized and become the part of the language.

   Originating with figurative extensions they are gradually transferred and are
    stabilized in the language.

   We may take the Oriya word maharii used for female attendants in temples.
    Originally meaning 'the female member of Mahar Caste' and the 'female
    servant of the god' the word now means something like a 'keep' .
   Stylistic differences also come under connotations.

   When we compare the word pitaa 'father' paapaa

   we find that the former is stylistically neutral, whereas the latter is colloquial.

    A similar distinction can be made between friend and chum. The connotations include
    the following variations of language
   Slangs, professionalisms, jargonisms, vulgarisms, dialectal
    words, neologisms, formal, peotic, baby language etc.



   The connotative meaning is vary significant for a lexicographer.

   When he analyses the semantic structure of individual lexical units, especially the
    polysemous ones, he has to distinguish between the denotative and connotative
    meanings for fixing the arrangement of meanings.
SENTENCE      INTERPRETATION         TYPE OF MEANING
John kicked   John hit the bucket    Compositional Meaning
the bucket.   with his leg.
              John died.(idiomaic    Non-Compositional Meaning
              meaning)




The sentence pabucu dama atıldı includes such an example in Turkish.We know it
includes the meaning ‘He has fallen out of favor’ but not the origin of that
meaning.
Idiomatic meaning for a Turkish idiom
SENTENCE                     INTERPRETATION                TYPE OF MEANING
                             His shoes were thrown out     Compositional Meaning
Pabucu dama atıldı.          onto his shop roof.
                             He is forbidden to work in    Original Meaning
                             shoe business.
                             He has fallen out of          Non-Compositional Meaning
                             favor.(idiomatic meaning)




   Collocational Meaning


   You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
1.   Buxom lass               attractive woman
2.   Blond hair               fair (yellow)hair
3.   Cascading water          wave-like dropping of water
4.   Glooomy weather          depressing weather
5.   Vested interest          secure possession
6.   Fancy dress              unusual costume




What do all these phrases have in common?


The obvious answer is that they are used in combination or
arrangement pretty frequently.




                                                             15
There is a saying in Turkish:’ Leb demeden, leblebiyi anlamak’. Now ,let us take a test:when

someone begins with the Turkish word zifiri…,can you predict the next word?Yes, it is
 karanlık qualifies for a true collocation.


           DIFFERENCES IN          ENGLISH                TURKISH
           COLLOCATIONS
                                   water                  water

                                   soup                   soup
           DRINK
                                   x                      cigarette

                                   x                      oath

                                   İnterpret              İnterpret(a dream)
           DREAM                   (a dream)
                                   I had a dream about    I saw you in my
                                   you.                   dream.
As the study of meaning of the linguistics expressions,semantics is
conveniently divided into two:

   Sentential Semantics
   Lexical Semantics
Meaning Inclusion   Entailment
    SENTENTIAL SEMANTICS             Meaning Equation    Ambiguity
                                                         paraphrase
S                                    Inconsistency       Contradiction
E                                    Meaning Inclusion   Hyphonymy
M
A                Meaning                                 polysemy
N                Relations
                                     Meaning Extension   Metonymy
T
                                                         Metaphor
I
C                                    Meaning Equation    Synonymy
S   LEXICAL                                              Ambiguity
    SEMANTICS    Lexical Relations   Inconsistency       Antonymy
                                                         Anomaly
   Paraphrasing
   Entailment
   Ambiguity and
   contradiction
   Paraphrasing at the sentence level is much more complicated.The
    commonest ones in structural change include:




   Active-passive transformation      Paraphrased                  Entailed
   Inversion
   It-clefts
   Wh-clefts
   Non-referential’there’
   Fronting                                                                   Utterance
                                                     Paraphrase




                                                         Paraphrase and entailment
   Entyailment refers to the recognition of the shared,presupposed knowledge.All
    Utterances are based on certain entailments.




         ACTUAL UTTERANCE                   ENTAILED KNOWLEDGE

         How’s school going?                I know you study at a school.

         Did you quit smoking?              I know you were smoking

         I’m not going to speak of my       My political opponent has
         political opponent’s blunders.     blunders.
   Existence of ‘ambiguity’ in natural languages.

     They hated the shooting of the      ‘They hated the hunters who did
     hunters.                            the shooting’
                                         ‘They hated the fact that the
                                         hunters were shot.’




       Lexical semantics

       Studies meaning of words

       Divided into two:Meaning Relations and Lexical Relations
   Meaning Relations is about the interaction of meanings within and across lexical items
    in the vocab.



   Meaning Inclusion
   Meaning Extension
   Meaning Equation





   Meaning Inclusion:Polysemy,Entailment and Hyphonmy.
    Polysemy and Homonymy

      Polysemy



1.   Directly related with metaphor

2.   Common in languages

3.   Multiple related meanings on the basis of analogy,similarity



      Head (n)    a)’Part of human body’
                  b)’President of an institution’
                  c)’Go’(v) where are you heading?
   It involves two or more lexical items

   Having same shape either in the form of pronunciation or spelling

   Club(n) a)Society of persons
            b)Heavy stick,baton
            c)A kind of playing card



A:Do you believe in clubs for young people?
B:Only when kindness fails,my friend!
   Have the same pronunciation but different spelling.

   Threw/through      /θru:/
   I/eye              /aı/



   Homographs

   Have the same spelling but different pronunciation.Compare:

   Wind in the sense of blowing./wınd/
   Wind in the sense of bendind./waınd/
The meaning of one includes the meaning of the other word.

The word that includes is called a ‘superordinate’ while the one that is included in the
meaning of the superordinate is called a ‘hyponym’.




   SUPERORDINATE          SPEAK
   Hyponyms               Shout,tell,say,utter,pronounce,murmur,mutter,whisper,grumple,
                          mumble



    SUPERORDINATE                       WRITE
    Hyponyms                            Inscribe,red,pink,orange,green,y
                                        ellow,blue,purple,white.
SUPERORDINATE            COLOR
Hyponyms                 Black,red,pink,orange,yellow,blue,purple,white.




 Metaphor

 It ıncludes two major subsections:metaphor and metonymy.

 The sole purpose of linguistic communaication (metaphor)

 Express the word in a creative way that based on perceptual,functional or physical
 resemblances.
   It is a semantic relationship that holds between two words in terms of part
    whole,content-container,symbol-represented.connections.

   Can you light up the stove?

   What is to be lit is not the stove,but the contents of the stove.

   Meaning Equation

   Synonymy

   Extremely useful tool for people not to sound too repetitive as well as to be understood
    when the listener is not familiar with the word.

   To consist of
   To comprise
   To be composed of
FREEDOM                   LIBERTY                STATUS
Freedom of speech         Liberty of speech      Synonymous

*Civil freedoms           Civil liberties        Not synonymous

*At freedom               At liberty             Not synonymous



Synonymy through collocations ‘Car’

CAR                       AUTOMOBILE             STATUS

Car mechanic              *Automobile mechanic   Not synonymous

Car wash                  *Automobile wash       Not synonymous

Car show                  Automobile show        Synonymous
   A word,phrase or sentence that has more than one meaning is said to be ‘ambiguous’.

   Where are the glasses? (‘seeing glasses’ vs. window glasses’)

   Inconsistency

   Antonymy

   A relationship of oppositeness

   Richxpoor
    What’s odd in the following?

       My cat wishes to study linguistics for a change.




                                  COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS
EXAMPLES                          HUMAN                     ADULT
Study                             (+)                       (+)
Cat                               (-)                       (+)

                                                   BURCU KESİKOĞLU
                                                   100908016

                                                   SİNAN DERİNOĞLU
                                                    100908033

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Semantics

  • 2. Introduction To Semantics
  • 3. What is semantics?  Semantics is the study of meaning. It is a wide subject within the general study of language.  (how language users acquire a sense of meaning, as speakers and writers, listeners and readers) and of language change (how meanings alter over time .
  • 4. Symbol and referent  Conceptions of meaning  Words and lexemes  Denotation, connotation, implication  Pragmatics  Ambiguity  Metaphor, simile and symbol  Semantic fields  Synonym, antonym and hyponym
  • 5. The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning is constructed, interpreted, clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified negotiated, contradicted and paraphrased.  Collocation, fixed expression and idiom  Semantic change and etymology  Polysemy  Homonymy, homophones and homographs  Lexicology and lexicography  Thesauruses, libraries and Web portals  Epistemology
  • 6. This is usually a single word, but may be a phrase in which the meaning belongs to the whole rather than its parts, as in verb phrases tune in, turn on, drop out or noun phrase (a) cock up. Referential or denotative meaning Referential meaning is primary while connotative meaning is secondary. Theory of meaning, based on the first, is the theory of abstraction or referential theory, also called the theory of signification. This theory recognises the following three components of meaning:- (1) the sound form or the linguistic sign, (2) the concept underlying the form, and (3) the actual referent, that part of the extra linguistic world
  • 7. Connotative meaning is the communicative value which an expression has by virtue of what it refers to. EXP: 1. kill, murder, assassinate, 2. eat, partake, peck, wolf, devour, 3. Hindi marnaa, svargavaasii honaa, eN bolnaa, 4. khaanaa, liilnaa, bhakosnaa, 5. Bengali svaamii, bhaataar. In the above sets of the words, we find that all the words of each set have some common semantic features, which give their basic or denotative meaning.
  • 8. It is colorless and neutral. kill means simply causing death, whereas in murder there are some additional or supplementary features which determine its meaning.  In the same way partake, peck, wolf, devour have some additional features. These additional features add some extra meaning to the basic denotative meanings.
  • 9. These features are called connotation and the meanings based on them the connotative meaning or connotation component of meaning.  We are connotations added to words? when a speaker feels that the denotation meaning would not be enough to produce some desired additional effects like irony, joke, humor, euphemism and respect etc. he adds connotations to the words.
  • 10. The connotation component of meaning related to the emotive or expressive notion of the speaker or to stylistic values.  Introduced into the language by individuals.  Become socialized and become the part of the language.  Originating with figurative extensions they are gradually transferred and are stabilized in the language.  We may take the Oriya word maharii used for female attendants in temples. Originally meaning 'the female member of Mahar Caste' and the 'female servant of the god' the word now means something like a 'keep' .
  • 11. Stylistic differences also come under connotations.  When we compare the word pitaa 'father' paapaa  we find that the former is stylistically neutral, whereas the latter is colloquial.  A similar distinction can be made between friend and chum. The connotations include the following variations of language
  • 12. Slangs, professionalisms, jargonisms, vulgarisms, dialectal words, neologisms, formal, peotic, baby language etc.  The connotative meaning is vary significant for a lexicographer.  When he analyses the semantic structure of individual lexical units, especially the polysemous ones, he has to distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings for fixing the arrangement of meanings.
  • 13. SENTENCE INTERPRETATION TYPE OF MEANING John kicked John hit the bucket Compositional Meaning the bucket. with his leg. John died.(idiomaic Non-Compositional Meaning meaning) The sentence pabucu dama atıldı includes such an example in Turkish.We know it includes the meaning ‘He has fallen out of favor’ but not the origin of that meaning.
  • 14. Idiomatic meaning for a Turkish idiom SENTENCE INTERPRETATION TYPE OF MEANING His shoes were thrown out Compositional Meaning Pabucu dama atıldı. onto his shop roof. He is forbidden to work in Original Meaning shoe business. He has fallen out of Non-Compositional Meaning favor.(idiomatic meaning) Collocational Meaning You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
  • 15. 1. Buxom lass attractive woman 2. Blond hair fair (yellow)hair 3. Cascading water wave-like dropping of water 4. Glooomy weather depressing weather 5. Vested interest secure possession 6. Fancy dress unusual costume What do all these phrases have in common? The obvious answer is that they are used in combination or arrangement pretty frequently. 15
  • 16. There is a saying in Turkish:’ Leb demeden, leblebiyi anlamak’. Now ,let us take a test:when someone begins with the Turkish word zifiri…,can you predict the next word?Yes, it is karanlık qualifies for a true collocation. DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH TURKISH COLLOCATIONS water water soup soup DRINK x cigarette x oath İnterpret İnterpret(a dream) DREAM (a dream) I had a dream about I saw you in my you. dream.
  • 17. As the study of meaning of the linguistics expressions,semantics is conveniently divided into two:  Sentential Semantics  Lexical Semantics
  • 18. Meaning Inclusion Entailment SENTENTIAL SEMANTICS Meaning Equation Ambiguity paraphrase S Inconsistency Contradiction E Meaning Inclusion Hyphonymy M A Meaning polysemy N Relations Meaning Extension Metonymy T Metaphor I C Meaning Equation Synonymy S LEXICAL Ambiguity SEMANTICS Lexical Relations Inconsistency Antonymy Anomaly
  • 19. Paraphrasing  Entailment  Ambiguity and  contradiction
  • 20. Paraphrasing at the sentence level is much more complicated.The commonest ones in structural change include:  Active-passive transformation Paraphrased Entailed  Inversion  It-clefts  Wh-clefts  Non-referential’there’  Fronting Utterance Paraphrase Paraphrase and entailment
  • 21. Entyailment refers to the recognition of the shared,presupposed knowledge.All Utterances are based on certain entailments. ACTUAL UTTERANCE ENTAILED KNOWLEDGE How’s school going? I know you study at a school. Did you quit smoking? I know you were smoking I’m not going to speak of my My political opponent has political opponent’s blunders. blunders.
  • 22. Existence of ‘ambiguity’ in natural languages. They hated the shooting of the ‘They hated the hunters who did hunters. the shooting’ ‘They hated the fact that the hunters were shot.’ Lexical semantics Studies meaning of words Divided into two:Meaning Relations and Lexical Relations
  • 23. Meaning Relations is about the interaction of meanings within and across lexical items in the vocab.  Meaning Inclusion  Meaning Extension  Meaning Equation   Meaning Inclusion:Polysemy,Entailment and Hyphonmy.
  • 24. Polysemy and Homonymy Polysemy 1. Directly related with metaphor 2. Common in languages 3. Multiple related meanings on the basis of analogy,similarity Head (n) a)’Part of human body’ b)’President of an institution’ c)’Go’(v) where are you heading?
  • 25. It involves two or more lexical items  Having same shape either in the form of pronunciation or spelling  Club(n) a)Society of persons b)Heavy stick,baton c)A kind of playing card A:Do you believe in clubs for young people? B:Only when kindness fails,my friend!
  • 26. Have the same pronunciation but different spelling.  Threw/through /θru:/  I/eye /aı/  Homographs  Have the same spelling but different pronunciation.Compare:  Wind in the sense of blowing./wınd/  Wind in the sense of bendind./waınd/
  • 27. The meaning of one includes the meaning of the other word. The word that includes is called a ‘superordinate’ while the one that is included in the meaning of the superordinate is called a ‘hyponym’. SUPERORDINATE SPEAK Hyponyms Shout,tell,say,utter,pronounce,murmur,mutter,whisper,grumple, mumble SUPERORDINATE WRITE Hyponyms Inscribe,red,pink,orange,green,y ellow,blue,purple,white.
  • 28. SUPERORDINATE COLOR Hyponyms Black,red,pink,orange,yellow,blue,purple,white. Metaphor It ıncludes two major subsections:metaphor and metonymy. The sole purpose of linguistic communaication (metaphor) Express the word in a creative way that based on perceptual,functional or physical resemblances.
  • 29. It is a semantic relationship that holds between two words in terms of part whole,content-container,symbol-represented.connections.  Can you light up the stove?  What is to be lit is not the stove,but the contents of the stove.  Meaning Equation  Synonymy  Extremely useful tool for people not to sound too repetitive as well as to be understood when the listener is not familiar with the word.  To consist of  To comprise  To be composed of
  • 30. FREEDOM LIBERTY STATUS Freedom of speech Liberty of speech Synonymous *Civil freedoms Civil liberties Not synonymous *At freedom At liberty Not synonymous Synonymy through collocations ‘Car’ CAR AUTOMOBILE STATUS Car mechanic *Automobile mechanic Not synonymous Car wash *Automobile wash Not synonymous Car show Automobile show Synonymous
  • 31. A word,phrase or sentence that has more than one meaning is said to be ‘ambiguous’.  Where are the glasses? (‘seeing glasses’ vs. window glasses’)  Inconsistency  Antonymy  A relationship of oppositeness  Richxpoor
  • 32. What’s odd in the following?  My cat wishes to study linguistics for a change. COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS EXAMPLES HUMAN ADULT Study (+) (+) Cat (-) (+) BURCU KESİKOĞLU 100908016 SİNAN DERİNOĞLU 100908033