LINC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stipulative Definition, Karen People, Deixis
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The word bank: sometimes context is not always important for ex. The sky is blue" it doesn"t have a context but it has meaning: all of these descriptions of meaning are not adequate on its own to describe it. No because we each have different mental lexicons affected by our experience, our education, competency in the language (can be more detailed than a dictionary definition based our experience) (can also be lesser than a dictionary as we don"t know every word in the dictionary and their meaning) What are definitions composed of: lexemes, morphemes, phrasal ends, compounds, these all have meaning bearing units, ambiguities, idioms. He pissed me off vs he angered: both mean the same thing but there is some level of ambiguity, this is down to the level of formality. Aristotle distinguished between two concepts - the name we give the word and the definition of the word.
