英语词汇学charpter6-2 The study of word meaning ppt.ppt

The study of word meaning What is meaning? What is meaning? Lecture outline Types of word meaning Grammatical and lexical meaning Leech’s seven types of meaning Semantic field Meaning relations of words Synonymy Antonymy Meronymy Hyponymy Polysemy Homonymy 6.2 Main Types of Word Meaning 6.2.1 Grammatical meaning word-class inflectional paradigm (词形变化) 6.2.2 Lexical meaning Lexical meaning is dominant in content words, whereas grammatical meaning is dominant in function words. 6.2 Main Types of Word Meaning 6.2.1 Grammatical meaning Function words?(or?grammatical words) are?words?that have little?lexical?meaning?or ambiguous?meaning, but instead serve to express?grammatical?relationships with other words within a?sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. word-class the part of speech of the word. Inflectional paradigm词形变化 The set of grammatical forms of a word The forms for noun, verb and adj? The grammatical meaning is the same in identical set of individual forms of different words The lexical meaning of a word is the same throughout the paradigm 6.2 Main Types of Word Meaning 6.2.2 Lexical meaning Also known as the?dictionary?definition, is the?meaning?of the term in common usage. Lexical meaning is different from grammatical meaning in two respects: a. Lexical meaning of a word is the same in all the forms of one and the same word while the grammatical meaning varies from one word-form to another; b. Every word has a different lexical meaning, whereas the grammatical meaning is the same in identical sets of individual forms of different words. Example The?wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton?took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at?Westminster Abbey?in London.?Prince William, second in the line of succession to?Queen Elizabeth II, first met?Catherine Middleton?in 2001, whilst both were studying at the?University of St Andrews. News outlets widely estimated?that the wedding was watched by a glo