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• Lexical meaning: Lexical meaning is related to the
notion that the word conveys.
• Lexical meaning vs. grammatical meaning:
• The lexical meaning of a word is the same in all the forms of one
echoic words or onomatopoeic words, whose pronunciation suggests the meaning.
• pingpong, bang, buzz, hiss, bleat, jingle
• Morphological motivation: A word is morphologically motivated
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• Motivation:
• Definition: the connection between word-symbol and
its sense.
• Three major types of motivation:
• Phonetic motivation: Words motivated phonetically are called
overcoat, car, garden, color, airline, typewriter, village)
• a piece of, a chunk of, a cake of, a bar of, a slice of
(meat, paper, chocolate, soap, wood)
and the same word while the grammatical meaning varies from one word-form to another.
• forget, forgets, forgot, forgotten, forgetting
• Every word has a different lexical meaning, whereas the
grammatical meaning is the same in identical sets of individual
forms of different words.
• ables, men, potatoes
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• Types of lexical meaning:
• Denotative meaning (conceptual meaning): The
• mother • white
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• Social meaning (stylistic meaning): Social
meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use.
Word Meaning and Semantic Features
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Conventionality and Motivation
• Relationship between sound-symbol
and its sense:
• Arbitrariness • Conventionality
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• chamber/room, respond/answer
• Collocative meaning: the association a word
acquires in its collocation.
• pretty, handsome (girl, boy, woman, man, flower,
denotative meaning of a word is its definition given in a dictionary.
• mother • white
• Connotative meaning: Connotative meaning refers to
the emotional association which a word or a phrase suggests in one’s mind; it is the supplementary value which is added to the purely denotative meaning of a word.
when a direct connection can be observed between the morphemic structure of the word and its meaning.
• handbag, international
• Semantic motivation: Semantic motivation refers to the mental
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Main Types of Word Meaning
• Grammatical meaning: Grammatical meaning refers
to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships such as part of speech of words, singular and plural meaning of nouns, tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms.
associations suggested by the conceptual meaning of a word. It explains the connection between the literal sense and figurative sense of the word.
• the foot of the mountain • the leg of a table