文档介绍：Chapter 5 Word Meaning ponential Analysis
Objectives:
Discuss meanings of ‘meaning’;
Explain types of meaning.
Teaching focus:
Meanings of ‘meaning’;
Motivation of meaning;
Types of meaning;
Components of word meaning.
Word Meaning
is ‘word meaning’?
Word meaning can be defined as a reciprocal relation between name and meaning. 意义是名称与意思的联系。
‘Meaning’ is what the form stands for.
Eg: desk: something you sit at and you do your work
2. What is reference所指关系?
It is the relationship between language and the 。
By means of reference, a speaker indicates which things in the world (including persons) are being talked ,说话人指称外界的事物或人。
It is the relationship between words and the things, actions, events, and qualities they stand for. For example, the word ‘tree’ refers to the object ‘tree’.
In other words, only when a connection has been established between the linguistic sign and a referent, ., an object, a phenomenon, a person, etc. does the sign e ,只有当语言符号与所指物---物体、现象、人等之间建立某种联系,这个符号才获得意义。
The reference of a word to a thing outside the language is arbitrary and conventional. This connection is the result of generalization and ,又是约定俗成的。是高度概括的,是从同类事物中抽象出来的。
3. What is concept?
It is the general idea or meaning which is associate with a word or symbol in a person’s mind.
指词或符号在人脑中的大致印象或意义。
What ‘s the relationship between meaning and concept?
They are closely connected but not identical.
They are both related directly to referents and are notions of the words but belong to different categories.
Concept, which is beyond language, is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human is universal to all men alike regardless of culture, race, language and so on.
But meaning belongs to language, so is restricted to language use. A concept can have as many referring expressions as there are languages in the world. Even in the same lan