Structure of Denotational Meaning

Lecture 5. Word and Lexical Meaning

The word is _______________________________________________________________________________________

I_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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A semantic triangle

The referent is named by a word “ house“.

The referent is reflected in the meaning: “the building in which people live”.

The meaning is represented by the name.

Notion and meaning

Semantic Structure of a Word

Lexical meaning_________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

e.g.father, fathers, with my father, his father’s job - “a male parent”;

Grammartical meaning_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

e.g., s – plural, ‘s– possessive case, -er – comparison.

e.g. father “a noun, countable, singular”

fathers - “a noun, countable, plural”

______________________________is the type of meaning that makes communication possible.

______________________________ is additional meaning that adds to the fundamental of the word.

Connotations

1 .Evaluative _____________________________________________________________________________________

(positive or negative) e.g. famous () - notorious ()

2 .Stylistic _______________________________________________________________________________________

meal (), snack, bite (), refreshment ()

3 .Emotive ________________________________________________________________________________________

e.g. to stare

to peep

Structure of meaning

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e.g. father - 1)My father is a doctor.___________________________

2) Our fathers knew how to preserve berries for long. ____________________

3) founding fathers of American democracy_____________________

4)Father John __________

Structure of Denotational Meaning