This document discusses the seven types of meaning:
1. Conceptual or denotative meaning refers to the basic dictionary definition.
2. Connotative meaning includes attributes and associations beyond the literal meaning.
3. Social meaning conveys information about the social context and characteristics of the speaker.
4. Affective or emotive meaning refers to the feelings and attitudes expressed by the speaker.
5. Reflected meaning arises when a word has multiple meanings that influence one another.
6. Collocative meaning refers to associations based on habitual co-occurrence with other words.
7. Thematic meaning is communicated through how the message is organized and what is emphasized.
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ETL705 Week 6Semantics and the LexiconKey topics inBetseyCalderon89
ETL705 Week 6:
Semantics and the Lexicon
Key topics in Semantics
Sense and reference
Literal meaning
Figurative meaning
Lexical Semantics
Speech acts
Gricean maxims
Reference
presupposition
Sense and reference
Sense and reference, as we may simply say, are the two sides of a coin.
Reference (Denotation) is the person, the object, or anything that we are talking about and has a reference in the outside world.
Sense (Meaning) is related to the meaning, and the way the person or the object is referred to.
Activity
Identify the sense and reference of the word ‘unicorn’.
Literal vs. figurative meaning
The meaning that we draw ordinarily is called the literal meaning. The word ‘needle’ is literally defined as ‘a sharp instrument’. The non-literal meaning of ‘pain’ is not included in its dictionary definition. This is the connotative meaning that we get from ‘needle’. The denotation of the word refers (see reference in the previous slide) to the actual needle whereas the connotation, as one type of figurative meaning, is used for the sense (see sense in the previous slide).
Figurative meaning or figurative language is used for different purposes; e.g., for exaggeration, for analogy, and for metaphors, among other things. In literature it is often known as figure of speech.
Metaphors
The sentence ‘He is the apple of my eye’ – doesn’t refer to any kind of fruit; there is, of course, no real apple in a person's eye. The "apple" is someone beloved and held dear.
When we hear this statement, we interpret it metaphorically, that is, we go beyond the literal meaning.
Other examples:
a bubbly personality
feeling blue
a rollercoaster of emotions
it’s raining men
Since our daily use of language is full of metaphors, it is sometimes hard to draw a fine distinction between the literal and the metaphoric meaning. For this reason, some linguists prefer to consider them cognitively and not linguistically.
Activity
Think of 3 metaphors in English (or another language) and discuss
Metonymy
Metonymy is another kind of figure of speech which connotes habituality or association.
e.g.
‘The pen is mightier than the sword’
What about these?
The Crown
The White House
Dish
Ears
A hand
Australia
The semantics of homophony=homonymy
Homonyms:
When two words have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings
I went to the bank (by the river or to withdraw some cash?).
This is an interesting case
Activity
Provide 2 homonyms.
(If the spelling is different but the sound is the same, e.g sea and see, they are homophones)
The semantics of polysemy
Polysemy (adj polysemous):
When a word has several meanings, such as the word ‘run’.
Compare:
He runs.
The paint runs.
The engine runs.
He has a runny nose.
The grass runs for a mile.
He runs this business.
The semantics of hyponymy
The word ‘gum’ or ‘gum tree’ is one kind of tree. The general word ‘tree’ is superordinate or hyponymous to the word ‘gum tree’.
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Semantics: Seven types of meaning
1. Seven Types ofSeven Types of
MeaningMeaning
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2. A piece of language conveys its dictionary
meaning, connotations beyond the
dictionary meaning, information about the
social context of language use, speaker’s
feelings and attitudes rubbing off of one
meaning on the another meaning of the
same word when it has two meanings and
meaning because of habit occurrence.
Geoffrey Leech in his ‘Semantic- A
Study of meaning’ (1974) breaks down
meaning into seven types or ingredients
giving primacy to conceptual meaning.
3. HYMES’s SPEAKINGHYMES’s SPEAKING
In Sociolinguistics, seven types of meaning are in line with
Hymes’s theory of SPEAKING.
Situation – style; talk about formal or informal style.
Participant – who is the speaker.
End – goal is the denotative meaning.
Act – speech act; the implicature; the ordering/commanding
whether you are giving information, promising, or any other
expressions; something that is implied by the speech
Key – emotion/the mood of the speaker
Instrument – the thing we use to send the message
Norm
Genre – the same with style.
4. 1.1. Conceptual or DenotativeConceptual or Denotative
MeaningMeaning
Conceptual meaning is also called logical or
cognitive meaning. It is the basic propositional
meaning which corresponds to the primary
dictionary definition.
It is the essential or core meaning.
E.g.
/P/ can be described as- voiceless + bilabial +
plosive.
Similarly
Boy = + human + male -adult.
The hierarchical structure of ‘Boy’ = + Human +
Male -Adult
5. It is the literal meaning of the word
indicating the idea or concept to which it
refers. The concept is minimal unit of
meaning which could be called ‘sememe’.
As we define phoneme on the basis of
binary contrast, similarly we can define
sememe ‘Woman’ as = + human +
female + adult.
6. Conceptual meaning deals with the core
meaning of expression. It is the denotative
or literal meaning. It is essential for the
functioning of language. For example, a part
of the conceptual meaning of ‘Needle”
may be “thin”, “sharp” or
“instrument”.
The aim of conceptual meaning is to
provide an appropriate semantic
representation to a sentence or statement.
The conceptual meaning is the base for all
the other types of meaning.
7. 2.2. Connotative MeaningConnotative Meaning
Connotative meaning is the communicative value of
an expression over and above its purely conceptual
content. It is something that goes beyond mere
referent of a word and hints at its attributes in the
real world.
Thus purely conceptual content of ‘woman’ is
+human + female+ adult but the psychosocial
connotations could be ‘gregarious’, ‘having
maternal instinct’ or typical (rather than
invariable) attributes of womanhood such as
‘babbling’,’ experienced in cookery’, ‘skirt or
dress wearing ‘etc.
8. Connotations vary age to age and society to
society.
E.g. Old age ‘Woman’ - ‘Non-trouser
wearing or sari wearing’ in Indian context must
have seemed definite connotation in the past.
Present ‘Woman’---- Salwar/T-shirt/Jeans
wearing.
The boundary between conceptual and connotative
seems to be analogous.
Connotative meaning is regarded as incidental,
comparatively unstable, in determinant, open
ended, variable according to age, culture and
individual, whereas conceptual meaning is not like
that . It can be codified in terms of limited symbols.
9. 3.3. Social MeaningSocial Meaning
The meaning conveyed by the piece of
language about the social context of its use is
called the social meaning.
The decoding of a text is dependent on our
knowledge of stylistics and other variations of
language.
We recognize some words or pronunciation
as being dialectical i.e. as telling us something
about the regional or social origin of the
speaker.
Social meaning is related to the situation in
which an utterance is used.
10. E.g. “I ain’t done nothing”
The line tells us about the speaker and that
is the speaker is probably a black American,
underprivileged and uneducated.
“Come on yaar, be a sport. Don’t be
Lallu”
The social meaning can be that of Indian
young close friends.
11. Stylistic variation represents the social
variation. This is because styles show the
geographical region social class of the speaker.
Style helps us to know about the period, field
and status of the discourse.
For example, ‘steed ’, ‘horse and ‘nag’ are
synonymous. They all mean a kind of animal
i.e. Horse. But they differ in style and so have
various social meaning. ‘Steed’ is used in
poetry; ‘horse’ is used in general, while ‘nag’ is
slang.
The word ‘Home’ can have many use also like
domicile (official), residence (formal) abode
(poetic) , home (ordinary use).
12. 4.4. Affective or Emotive MeaningAffective or Emotive Meaning
It refers to emotive association or effects of
words evoked in the reader, listener. It is
what is conveyed about the personal feelings
or attitude towards the listener.
E.g. ‘home’ for a sailor/soldier or
expatriate and ‘mother’ for a
motherless child, a married woman (esp.
in Indian context) will have special effective,
emotive quality.
13. For Leech affective meaning refers to what
is convey about the feeling and attitude of
the speak through use of language (attitude
to listener as well as attitude to what he is
saying).
Affective meaning is often conveyed through
conceptual, connotative content of the
words used
14. E.g.
“You are a vicious tyrant and a
villainous reprobation and I hate you”
or
“I hate you, you idiot”.
We are left with a little doubt about the
speaker’s feelings towards the listener.
Here speaker seems to have a very negative
attitude towards his listener. This is called
affective meaning.
15. But very often we are more discreet (cautious) and
convey our attitude indirectly.
E.g. “I am terribly sorry but if you would be
so kind as to lower your voice a little”
The sentence conveys our irritation in a scaled
down manner for the sake of politeness. Intonation
and voice quality are also important here. Thus the
sentence above can be uttered in biting sarcasm and
the impression of politeness maybe reversed while
–
E.g. “Will you belt up?”
can be turned into a playful remark between
intimates if said with the intonation of a request.
Words like darling, sweetheart or hooligan, vandal
have inherent emotive quality and they can be used
neutrally.
16. 5.5. Reflected MeaningReflected Meaning
Reflected meaning arises when a word has more
than one conceptual meaning or multiple
conceptual meaning.
In church service ‘the comforter and the Holy
Ghost ’refer to the third in Trinity. They are
religious words. But unconsciously there is a
response to their non-religious meanings too.
Thus the ‘comforter’ sounds warm and
comforting while the ‘Ghost’ sounds ‘awesome’
or even ‘dreadful’. One sense of the word seems
to rub off on another especially through relative
frequency and familiarity (e.g. a ghost is more
frequent and familiar in no religious sense.).
17. In poetry too we have reflected meaning as
in the following lines from ‘Futility’
‘Are limbs so dear achieved, are sides,
Full nerved still warm-too hard to stir’
Owen here uses ‘dear’ in the sense of
expensiveness. - But the sense of beloved is
also eluded.
18. Daffodils
“The could not but be gay
In such jocund company”
The word ‘gay’ was frequently used in
the time of William Wordsworth but the
word now is used for ‘homosexuality’.
19. Reflected meaning is also found in taboo
words.
The word ‘intercourse’ immediately
reminds us of its association with sex
(sexual intercourse). The sexual
association of the word drives away its
innocent sense, i.e. ‘communication’.
20. 6.6. Collocative MeaningCollocative Meaning
Collocative meaning is the meaning which a
word acquires in the company of certain
words. Words collocate or co-occur with
certain words only e.g. Big business not
large or great.
Collocative meaning refers to associations
of a word because of its usual or habitual
co-occurrence with certain types of words.
‘Pretty’ and ‘handsome’ indicate ‘good
looking’.
21. The word ‘pretty’ collocates with – girls,
woman, village, gardens, flowers, etc.
On the other hand, the word ‘handsome’
collocates with – ‘boys’ men, etc. so ‘pretty
woman’ and ‘handsome man’.
The verbs ‘wander’ and ‘stroll’ are quasi-
synonymous- they may have almost the same
meaning but while ‘cows may wander into
another farm’, they don’t stroll into that farm
because ‘stroll’ collocates with human subject
only.
22. 7.7. Thematic MeaningThematic Meaning
It refers to what is communicated by the
way in which a speaker or a writer
organizes the message in terms of
ordering focus and emphasis.
Thus active is different from passive
though its conceptual meaning is the
same.
The ways we order our message also
convey what is important and what not.
This is basically thematic meaning.
23. 1) Mrs. Smith donated the first prize
2) The first prize was donated by Mrs.
Smith.
In the first sentence “who gave away the
prize “is more important, but in the
second sentence “what did Mrs. Smith
gave is important”. Thus the change of
focus change the meaning also.
24. Alternative grammatical construction also
gives thematic meaning. For example,
1) He likes Indian good most.
2) Indian goods he likes most
3) It is the Indian goods he likes most.