文档介绍：Conceptual
Meaning
Conceptual Meaning (sometimes called "denotative" or "cognitive" meaning) is widely assumed to be the central factor in munication.
Conceptual Meaning
it has plex and anization f a kind which may pared with, and cross-related to, anization on the syntactic and phonological levels of language.
There are two structural principles that seem to lie at the basis of all linguistic patterning: the principle of contrastiveness and the principle of structure.
The ic symbol /b/ may be explicated as representing a bundle of contrastive features:
[ +bilabial, +voice, +stop, -nasal]
In a similar way, the conceptual meanings of a language can be studied in terms of contrastive features, so that (for example ) the meaning of the word "woman" could be specified as [+human, -male, +adult], as distinct from, say, boy, which could be "defined" [+Human, +male, -adult].
The second principle, that of structure, is the principle by which larger linguistic units are built up out of smaller units.
This aspect of anization of language is often given visual display in a tree-diagram:
S
NP
VP
Det
N
V
NP
Det
N
The
man
hit
the
ball
The man hit the ball.
Some of the simplest words harbor an amazingly explicit set of wayward traits. Digging them out, classifying them, and showing their relationships is ponential analysis or feature analysis, and the traits themselves are semantic features, which supposedly do the same for meaning that distinctive features do for phonology.