ENGL 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Principle Of Compositionality, Componential Analysis, Polysemy
Monday, October 23, 2017
English 290 W6D1 Lecture 8
Semantics !
-theories of meaning !
•the referential theory !
-the meaning of something was that to which it referred to !
-PROBLEMS!
•apply it to words like !
-remember !
-or !
-doesn’t work!
•mentalist theory !
-each specific person has a personal mental image to what a definition is!
-PROBLEMS !
•apply it to words like !
-envy!
-trust !
•doesn’t work!
•use theory !
-the way a word is used defines it’s meaning !
-people bring meanings to words !
-Componential Analysis !
•the meaning of words can be broken down into smaller units !
•there is a limited number of semantic features !
•language is fuzzy and to use componential analysis needs clear boundaries !
-Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs !
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