语言学_Chapter 5_Semantics.ppt

Chapter FiveSemantics;;Teaching Objective;主要内容;;What is meaning?;附：哲学与语义学;Logicians and philosophers have tended to concentrate on a restricted range of sentences (typically, statements, or ‘propositions’) within a single language. The linguistic approach aims to study the properties of meaning in a systematic and objective way, with reference to as wide a range of utterances and languages as possible.;The features of “meaning”;What is meaning?;What is meaning?;;;What is meaning? M is expressive;M is conventional;What is meaning? M is conventional;What is meaning?;M is flexible and imitation