Chapter 6 Meaning
Teaching aims: enable the students to have a better understanding of mantics and wording meaning.
Focal points: Leech’s ven classifications of meaning, mantic triangle, n relations between words and ntences
Teaching difficulties: n relations between ntences, different types of antonymy
Teaching procedure：
The outline of the chapter:
路在前方1 Semantics
2 Meanings of “meaning”
2.1 meaning by Ogdan and Richards
2. 2 meaning by G. Leech
3 Theories
3.1 The referential theoryP95狼狈而逃
彩虹谷3.1.1 concept
3.1.2 arguments
3.1.3 problems
3.2 Semantic triangle
3.2.1 concept
3.2.2 arguments
3.3 Conceptual meaning
3.3.1 concept
3.3.2 arguments p96
3.3.3 problems
4 Major Sen relations
4.1 Sen relations between words
涂鸦画图片 4.1.1 Sen relations
4.1.2 word meaningP97
4.1.3 componential analysis: word meaning analysis
4.2 Sen relations between ntences
4.2.1 Sen relations
4.2.2 Sentence meaning
4.2.3 integrated theory (Sentence meaning analysis)
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1 事业单位上班时间Semantics
The subject concerning the study of meaning is called mantics. In linguistics, mantics is thestudy of the meaning of linguistic units, words and ntences in particular. Its goal is to reveal how language is matched with their proper meanings by the speakers of that language. Semantics is an old and young branch. Dating from Plato, the study of meaning has a long history.
So you may find veral books bearing the title “mantics” but talking about different things. Here we just focus on linguistic mantics.
In linguistics, compared with other branches we have discusd, mantics is very young and new. The term mantics is a recent addition to the English language.
It has only a history of over 100 years.
1893 French linguist Breal coined “mantique”
1897 Breal first u it as the science of meaning.
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1900 its English version came out
1980s mantics began to be introduced into China “Cinderella of linguistics” (Kempson)
One of the most famous books on mantics is The Meaning of Meaning published in 1923.
2 Meanings of “meaning”
2.1 meaning (by Ogdan and Richards)
1) their book about meaning
2)arguments: 16 major category倾国倾城貌
What is the meaning of “desk”? √
I didn't mean to hurt you. (intend)
Life without faith has no meaning. (value)
It was John I mean not Harry (refer to ) √
2.2 meaning (by G. Leech)
1)his book about meaning
2)arguments: 7 major category
Denotation: the core n of a word or a phra that relates it to phenomena in the real world.
