Types and aspects of word meaning.

Aspects of Meaning

-Objective aspect (denotation): word ↔ referent;

-Notional aspect, i.e. significant features common for classes of objects (signification): word ↔ sense;

-Pragmatic aspect, i.e. the speaker’s attitude to the referent (connotation);

-Systemic or differential aspect, i.e. the relations of the signified word with other words within a word-group or in speech.

Types of meaning:

Word-meaning is not homogeneous but is made up of various components the combination and the interrelation of which determine to a great extent the inner facet of the word.

Grammatical meaning is the meaning which unites words into big groups such as parts of speech or lexico-grammatical classes. It is recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words, e.g. stones, apples, kids, thoughts have the grammatical meaning of plurality.

Lexical meaning is the meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit; it is recurrent in all the forms of this word and in all the possible distributions of these forms, e.g. the word-forms write, writes, wrote, writing, written have different grammatical meanings of tense, person, aspect, but the same lexical meaning ‘to make letters or other symbols on a surface, especially with a pen or pencil’.

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