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Lecture 5 Semantics • Semanticsthe study of language meaning. • Meaning is central to the study of communication. • What is meaning? Scholars under different scientific backgrounds have different understandings of language 1 meaning. 7 types of meaning given by G. Leech (Semantics, 1974) • conceptual Meaning: denotative 看那草包，做工真细！ • connotative meaning: associative 他是个草包。 • collocative : used together with others