LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Girlfriend, Prototype Theory, Connotation
21 Apr 2017
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Test: 45 questions m/c, classroom material until everything even the week before, only focus on textbook readings that go with what was taught in lecture. Why talk about meaning? meaning underlies language- it is the starting point of language production and the end point of language comprehension. Semantic features: ways of looking at the meaning of words, connotation & denotation, reference, category membership, hierarchical network. Literal meaning of a word: denotative meaning, dictionary definition; objective meaning. Literal description of the word: connotative meaning, e. g baby - denotation- infant --> connotation- girl friend. > chair ------> *pic of chair: a lot of words don"t have a physical entity e. g the, and , what does not work, there is no physical representation. Intension & extension: exetension- the thing or set of things refferred to, ex. Intension- the sense of the word based on our internal understanding of the word.
