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Meaning (G. Leech (Conceptual meaning or sense – logical, cognitive, or…
component of the word through which a concept is communicated, so that a word denotes real objects, qualities, actions and abstract notions
Ogden, Richard's Triangle, meaning is the combination of
symbol or the word (is not meaning, because different languages have different words for one concept and similar words for different concepts - homonymy, caught-кот, три - tree)
concept or reference (not meaning, result of generalization and abstraction)
referent or object (is not meaning, because we have more than one word for one concept)
Traditional approach
Lexical
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posesses 2 components
denotative (obligatory), expresses content
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Grammatical
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cats, dogs, men - identical plural meaning
boy, boy's, boys' - different frammatical, same lexical
Lexico-grammatical
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approximated in the lexical meaning of generic terms, i.e. words that are called semantically wide, can substitute any word in their class
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G. Leech
Conceptual meaning or sense – logical, cognitive, or denotative content
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Reflecting meaning – what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression.
Collocative meaning – what is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of another word.
Thematic meaning – what is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.