LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Part Of Speech, Simple Features, Connotation
19 Jan 2017
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Way of looking at the meaning of words. Denotative meaning: dictionary definition of a word; objective meaning. The meaning of a word is the object or event it points to in the real word (the referent) ex: the moon. Problem: there"s no referent for abstract words like hope, peace; or for function words. Two things can have same word, but that word means two diff things called the diff bw the intension and extension of word. Extension: the thing or set of things referred to (referent) (ex: planet venus) Intension: the sense of the word based on our internal understanding of the world (bright morning star = phosphorus, bright evening star = hesperus; both say venus, but they interpreted the object differently at diff times of day) Pluto: has different intension, because the sense has changed (first was thought of as a planet, but now is thought of as dwarf planet) How are meanings organized: hierarchal network model.
