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What is semantics?
The study of meaning
What is the connotative meaning?
It's concerned with the communicative value and expression has by virtue of what it refers to, over its purely conceptual meaning.
What is meantal image?
It's a graphic reoresentation in one's mind.
It's the type of meaning in which intonation and tone of voice are important.
Affective meaning.
What is the dictionary definition?
Literal meaning, but to understand the meaning of a word you have to know the meaning of other words.
What is reflective meaning?
Meaning that arises in cases of multiple conceptual meaning.
A sense of a word makes our reference to another sense.
What is social meaning?
Meaning which is determined by it's social circumstances.
This type of meaning can be negative or positive depending on the speaker's asociation.
Connotative meaning.
What is affective meaning?
meaning which reflect the individual feeling of the speaker including his attitude to the speaker's object he expresses.
The Greek term "Semanen" from which semantics is derived means:
To signify or mean
What is reference?
The meaning of a word is the actual thing in the real world.
What is thematic meaning?
Is what is communicated by the way in which a speaker or writer organizes the message in terms ofordering, focus, and enphasis.
Dictionary definition, Mental image, Reference.
What are the seven types of meaning?
Conceptual, connotative, social, affective, reflective, collocative, and thematic meaning.
What is the conceptual meaning?
It's the Literal or core sense of a word. literal, dictionary definition of the word.
What is lexicon?
The mental storehouse of word and morpheme meanings.
What is Lexical semantics?
Word meaning and relationship.
What is phrasal/sentential semantics?
The study of how word meanings combine into phrases and sentence meaning.
What is meaning?
Meaning is concerned with the relation between words and objects to which they refer.
What is collocative meaning?
Words which are considered to have individual lexical items or share common ground in meaning but may be distinguished in their occurrence.