语言学课件 Chapter 5 Meaning.pptVIP

Chapter FiveMeaning 1. The Study of Meaning Semantics: the study of meaning 英文semantics来自希腊语semantikos，意思是significant(有意义)。是研究语言意义的科学。 Linguistic semantics: the study of the meaning of linguistic units, words and sentences in particular The meaning of words: Lexical semantics The meaning of sentences: Propositional meaning, compositional meaning The meaning of utterances: Pragmatics Meaning has always been a central topic in human scholarship. Meaning has been studied for thousands of years by philosophers, logicians and linguists, e.g. Plato Aristotle. Logicians and philosophers have tend