This document discusses different types of meaning in language. It outlines seven types of conceptual meaning: 1) conceptual or denotative meaning, 2) connotative meaning, 3) social meaning, 4) affective or emotive meaning, 5) reflected meaning, 6) collocative meaning, and 7) thematic meaning. It also discusses literal and figurative meaning, and explains how sentence meaning differs from speaker meaning. Finally, it describes Ogden and Richards' theory of symbols and meaning, including their semantic triangle model of the relationships between symbols, thoughts, and referents.

1. COMPILED BY :
Mardiyatul Maula (D75214042)
Nurul Dwi Oktaviana (D75214069)
Yunika Trikarunia Anwar (D75214074)
TYPES OF MEANING
THOUGHT AND SYMBOL

2. • The most obvious feature of
language and the most obscure
aspect to study.
MEANING IS …

3. DEPEND ON LEECH’
CLASSIFICATION OF MEANING
A. SEVEN TYPES OF MEANING

4. Conceptual meaning is also called logical or
cognitive meaning. It is the basic
propositional meaning which corresponds
to the primary dictionary definition. Such a
meaning is stylistically neutral and objective
as opposed to other kinds of associative
meanings.
1. CONCEPTUAL OR DENOTATIVE MEANING:

5. 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. It is something more
than the dictionary meaning.
2. CONNOTATIVE MEANING

6. 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.
3. SOCIAL MEANING

7. For some linguists 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. In affective
meaning, language is used to express personal
feelings or attitude to the listener or to the subject
matter of his discourse.
4. AFFECTIVE OR EMOTIVE MEANING

8. At the lexical level of language, Reflected
meaning arises when a word has more than one
conceptual meaning or multiple conceptual
meaning.
5. REFLECTED MEANING

9. 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.
6. COLLOCATIVE MEANING

10. 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. Various parts of the sentence also can be
used as subject, object or complement to show
prominence.
7. THEMATIC MEANING

11. 1. LITERAL
Sentences have literal meanings. The literal
meaning of a sentence is entirely determined by the
meanings of its component words (or morphemes)
and the syntactical rules according to which these
elements are combined.
B. SOME TYPES OF MEANING

12. 2. FIGURATIVE
Figurative” has the same root as “figure,”
which is another word for a diagram, display; an
image or illustration. A “figurative” meaning is a
meaning that is not literal; the meaning used is
not the meaning of the word or phrase itself, but
a different meaning implied by it.

13. a. Sentence Meaning
It is referred to as the meaning that can be
predicted from the semantic relationship between
the words that the sentence contains. In other
words, the meaning of the sentence is bound up
with the meaning of each lexical item it comprises.
D. SENTENCE OR WORD MEANING AND SPEAKER
MEANING

14. b. Speakers Meaning
Speakers meaning is not directly related to the
grammatical and lexical structure. Instead, it includes all
the various types of meaning obtained either from
prosodic and paralinguistic features. That is, speakers
meaning is associated with meanings, ideas, and thoughts
that are to be communicated with non verbal language and
some phonetic features of a given system (language).

15. Ogden and Richards developed the “Symbol
Theory” in order to explain how words expressed in
communication evoke images, thus providing a
personal meaning based on experience. Symbols are
inherently arbitrary by themselves; however, when
used in conjunction with one another, meaning is
created for the ideas being expressed.
E. THOUGHT AND SYMBOL

16. A good example of a symbol is text. Text, by
itself, is meaningless, as it draws no relation to anything
outside itself. However, when we combine text with a
word and even a picture, we create a workable definition
from which to operate. This is the fundamental principle
behind Ogden and Richards’ theory.

17. In order to illustrate his point that there is a direct
relationship between symbols and thought, Ogden and
Richards created the “Semantic Triangle.” The triangle is
a simple model in which the three factors involved with
the statement or idea are placed in the corners and the
relationships between them are represented by the sides.

18. One peak of the triangle would be the
symbol (a word). Another peak would be a
thought, such as words to describe the symbol.
Finally, the image we create in our minds would
become the referent.

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