英语词汇学.ppt

英语词汇学48849.pptEnglish Lexicology (III)
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Contents
8. Word Meaning
9. Sense Relations
To be continued
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Chapter 8 Word Meaning
Types of Word Meaning
Grammatical Meaning
Lexical meaning
Conceptual meaning
Associative meaning
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Types of Word Meaning
Conceptual
Meaning
Associative
Meaning
Stylistic meaning
Collocative meaning
Affective meaning
Connotative meaning
Grammatical
Meaning
Lexical
Meaning
Word Meaning
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Grammatical Meaning
Grammatical meaning(语法意义)refers to that part of meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships such as the word class, singular and plural forms of nouns, tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms (forget, forgets, forgot, forgotten, forgetting).
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Lexical meaning
Lexical meaning(词汇意义) is the meaning of an isolated word in a dictionary. ponent of meaning is identical in all the forms of the word.
. ‘go, goes, went, gone, going’ possess different grammatical meaning. But they have the same lexical meaning expressing the process of movement.
Lexical meaning itself has ponents: conceptual meaning and associative meaning.
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Conceptual meaning
Conceptual meaning(概念意义) (also known as denotative meaning) is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of word meaning. Conceptual meaning forms the basis munication as the same word has the same conceptual meaning to all the speakers of the same language.
Sun: a heavenly body which gives off light, heat,and energy
Mother: a female parent
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Associative meaning
Associate meaning(关联意义) is the secondary meaning supplemented to the conceptual meaning. It differs from the conceptual meaning in that it is liable to the influence of such factors as culture, experience, religion, geographical region, class background, educa