Types of meaning

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1. Types of meaning

2. Conceptual meaning: It is also called logical or cognitive meaning. It is the central factor or the core meaning in linguistic communication. The aim of conceptual meaning is to provide an appropriate semantic representation to a sentence or statement. For example; Bird can be described as a flying, two legged, and egg laying creature with features and wings.

3. Principles Contrastiveness it underlies the classification of sounds of phonology. For example +Human, -male, +Adult +Human, +female ,-Adult 2. Structure Larger linguistics units are built up out of smaller units

4. Associative meanig: Additional meaning which is attached to the words. For example; beautiful life. Types: Conotative meaning Social meaning Affective meaning Reflected meaning Collocative meaning

5. Connotative meaning: It is communicative value of an expression over and above its purely conceptual content. It vary age to age and society to society and individual to individual. For example; Father…….. Strength, strong will, tolerance Business person……… wealth, generosity

6. Social Meaning: The meaning conveyed by the piece of language about the social context of its use is called social meaning. It is related to the situation in which an utterance is used. It is the formality of the expression. Example; Mother….. Formal , Mama……… child’s language Father….., papa, old boy(men)

7. Affective meaning It is what is conveyed about the personal feelings or attitude towards the listener. Example; Politician……… a national leader, a wise man ‘’I hate for it’’.

8. Reflected meaning ; It arise when a word has more than one conceptual meaning. Daffodils For example; He took the drugs. Enjoy yourself.

9. Collocative meaning When one word is used with one word it will convey one meaning but when one word is used with other word its meaning change. Basically formed by the people’s habit in using language in long term process. Example; fast……… reading, color, road, car…….. Have a fast; fast has such collocative meanings as ………. Quick moving, capable of high speed, firmly fixed, or abstaining from food for a time.

10. Thematic meaning: What is communicated by the way in which a speaker or writer organizes the message in terms of ordering, focus and emphasis. Example; Misha broke the window. The window was broken by Misha .