THE DIMENTION OF MEANING

1. By : Apriana Diana ImaNurhanida Sri Haryati Nurmawaty THE DIMENTION OF MEANING

3. Reference and denotation Connotation Sense Relations Lexical and grammatical meanings Morphemes Homonymy and polysemy Lexical ambiguity Sentence meaning THE DIMENTION OF MEANING

4. Reference is the relation between a language expression such as this door, both doors, the dog, another dog and whatever the expression pertains to in particular situation of language use, including what a speaker may imagine. Reference is the way speakers and hearers use an expressions successfully. REFERENCE

5. Denotation is the potential of a word like door or dog to enter into such language expressions. e.g: 1. This dog is a Dalmatian. 2. My children have just acquired a dog. 3. Several dogs were fighting over a bone. Denotation is the knowledge they have that makes their use successful. DENOTATION

6. Denotation is usually given priority of treatment in semantics because it often has a complex organization that lends itself to semantics analysis. e.g: the relations between dependency between armchair and seat and contrast between sofa and bench. DENOTATION

7. Seat chair armchair stool sofa bench (‘for one person’) (‘for more than one person’) chair armchair stool sofa bench (‘with a back) (‘without back’) (‘with a back’) (‘without back’) TENTATIVE DIAGRAM FOR SEAT DOMAIN

8. The affective or emotional associations it elicits, which clearly need not to be the same for all people who know and use the word. Connotation refers to the personal aspect of meaning, the emotional associations that the word arouses. CONNOTATION

9. Hjelmslev (1971 : 109-10) pointed out that (about a dog) Among Eskimos a dog is an animal that is use for pulling a sled. Parsees regard dogs nearly sacred. Hindus consider them a great pest. CONNOTATION examples

10. Western Europe and America some members of the species still perform the original chores of hunting & guarding while others are merely ‘pets’. Certain societies, the flesh of dogs is part of a human diet and others it is not. The meaning of dog includes the attitudes of a society and of individuals, the pragmatic aspect. CONNOTATION examples

11. Connotations vary according to the experience of individuals but because people do have common experiences, some words have shared connotation or similar relation. e.g: 1. that violin and that fiddle 2. automobile and car 3. building and edifice 4. fire and conflagration 5. thin or slender or svelte or skinny. CONNOTATION

12. Connotation can have the same referent; can refer the same object on a particular occasion but they do not have the same meaning, they differ in connotation. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. summary

13. What a word means depends in part on its associations with other words, the relational aspect. Lexemes do not merely ‘have’ meanings: they contribute meanings to utterances in which they occur, and what meanings they can contribute depends on what other lexemes they are associated with in these utterances 3.3 SENSE RELATIONS

14. The meaning that a lexeme has because of these relationships is the sense of that lexeme. Example: a. John walked. An hour elapsed. b. John elapsed. An hour walked. Part of the relationship is seen in the way word meanings vary with context. Example: a. Professor Jones has a rather large library. b. The library is at the corner of Wilson and Adams Street.

15. A number of English verbs can be used in two different ways - different grammatical association – and then have slightly different meanings. Example: a. A windowbroke. b. Tom broke a window. A lexeme does not merely ‘have’ meaning; it contributes to the meaning of a larger unit, a phrase or sentence. Example: a. a happy child, a happy family b. a happyaccident, a happyexperience c. a happystory, a happyreport

16. Each lexeme is linked in some way to numerous other lexemes of the language. There are two kinds of linkage. 1. Syntagmaticrelations, the mutual associations of two or more words in a sequence (not necessarily right next to one another) so that the meaning of each is affected by the other(s) and together their meaning of the larger unit, the phrase or sentence. Example of syntagmatic relations happy + child = happy child, happy + accident = happy accident sit + chair = sit chair read + book = read book , read +newspaper = read newspaper

17. 2. Paradigmaticrelation, a relation of choice. We choose from among a number of possible words that can fill the same blank: the words may be similar in meaning or have a little in common but each is different from others. Example of paradigmatic relation: The judge was arbitrary. The judge was cautious. The judge was careless. • Since we are used to writing system that goes from left to right, syntagmatic relation as horizontal and paradigmatic relations as vertical.

18. A dogbarked a refering expression predicate A dogis the phrase which refers to a certain animals and is called as a referring expression (is a piece of language that is used AS IF it is linked to something outside language, some living or dead entity or concept or group of entities or concepts). The entity to which the referring expression is linked is its referent. The verb bark is linked to an activity associated with the referring expression dog and is called as a predicate (The use of language generally involves something about that entity, entity and saying, or predicating, something about that entity. 3.4 Lexical and grammatical meanings

19. Every language has a grammatical system and different languages have somewhat different grammatical systems. We can explain what grammatical meanings by showing how the sentence A dog barked differs from other sentences that have the same referring expression and the same predicate. The grammatical system of English make possible the expression of meaning like these: statement vs question A dog barked. Did a dog bark? affirmative vs negative: A dog barked. A dog did not bark. No dog bark past vs present: A dog barked A dog barks. singular vs plural: A dog barked. Some dogs barked. indefinite vs definite: A dog barked . The dog barked.

20. Grammatical meanings, are expressed in various ways: the arrangement of words (referring expression before the predicate, by grammatical affixes like the –sattached to the noun dog and the –ed attached to the verb bark, and by grammatical words, or function words, like in these sentences: do (in the form did), not, a, some and the.

21. The meanings of dog and bark are not grammatical but lexical, with association outside language. They are lexemes. A lexeme is a minimal unit that can take part in referring or predicating. Example: a. Go, going, went, gone b. Put up with, kick the bucket, dog in the manger In group (a) there are 4 forms and the forms have four different meaning, but they have a shared meaning, which is lexical, and other meanings of a grammatical nature added to the lexical meaning. These four forms constitute one lexeme – which we designate as go

22. In group (b) presents a different sort of problem. The expression put up with combines the porms put and up and with, but its meaning is not combination of the separate meanings. Therefore put up with , in the sense of ‘endure, ‘tolerate,’is a single lexeme. Kick the bucket means ‘die’and dog in the mangerrefers to a person who will not let others share what he has, even though he does not use it himself

23. We recognize several kinds of meaning. Some pieces of languagerefer to something, real or fictitious, outside of language. Some linguistic forms make comments aboutreferents; these are predicates. In addition there aregrammaticalmeanings, expressed by bound morphemes (affixes), by functionwords, and by arrangement of forms in a sentence. Referring expressionsand predicates have lexical meaning while grammatical morphemesand function words express grammatical meanings. The totalityof lexemes in the language constitute the lexicon of the language,and all the lexemes that one individual knows are his or her personallexicon. summary

24. 3.5 MORPHEMES

25. A morphemes is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammatical of a language . • A single word may be composed of one or more morphemes • Examples : She looked unhappier than the day before. The word “unhappier” consist s of : un + happy + er (can be analyzed into 3 morphemes) un- (a unit of grammatical function in indicating negative) happy ( one minimal unit) er ( a unit of grammatical function in indicating comparison) definition

26. guitarist : guitar ( one minimal unit) -ist (meaning “ person who does something) dogs : dog (one minimal unit) -s (a unit of grammatical function in a plural marker on nouns) More examples of morphemes

27. CLASSIFICATION OF MORPHEMES free morphemesbound morphemes (basic word forms) (prefixes andsuffixes) Free Morphemes:morphemes which can be used as a word on their own.They generally consist of separate English word forms such as nouns,verbs and adjectives. EXAMPLES : girl,system,happy,act,plane,etc.

28. Bound morphemes: • morphemeswhich can not occur on theirown as an independentword.Theyaregenerallyprefixesandsuffixeslike re-,-ist,-ed,-s in thewordsreprint,typist,talkedandboys,forexampleandareattachedtootherformswhicharedescribed as stems-basicwordforms EXAMPLES : un + happy + er(unhappier) prefixstem suffix boundfree bound

29. Dog 1 morpheme Dogs 2 morphemes dog + -s (pl) Bulldog 2 morphemes bull + dog Walk 1 morpheme walk Walks 2 morphemes walk +s (3rd per sing) Walked 2 morphemes walk+ ed(past tense) Red 1 morpheme red Reddish 2 morphemes red+-ish (deriv.adj) Redder 2 morphemes red +-er (comparative) Examples of infectionaland Derivational affixes

30. 3.6 HOMONYMY AND Polysemy

31. sense relation in which one form has different meaning ; different words with the same form (treated as such in dictionaries) no relatedness in meaning e.g. bank1‐side of a river bank2‐financial institution Pronunciation is identical but meaning are unrelated HOMONYMY

32. steak stake pronunciation is identically but spelling is different (different in phonology) so More examples of homonymy

33. One word having several closely related senses (a word or phrase with multiple meanings) Native speaker has clear intuition that the different senses are related to each other Polysemy‐close relatedness in m. which is usually connected to metaphorical extension POLYSEMY

34. head seems to have related meanings when we speak of the head of a person, the head of company, the head of a table or bed, head of lettuce or cabbage • pupil = part of eye, school child Examples :

35. The distinction between homonymy and polysemy is not an easy one to make. See the following sentences : 1. Fred asked Betty where his golf clubs were 2. Fred asked Donna if she had seen his clubs 3. Fred asked Charles to help him find his clubs note

36. Sentence 1 & 2 are about questions, requests for information. The utterances behind sentence 1 & 2 would be something like “Where are my golf clubs, Betty?” Sentence 3 is not a request for information but a request for a kind of action. The utterance behind sentence 3 might be something “ Help me to find my clubs, Charles.” note

37. A morpheme is the minimal meaningful unit, possessing both sound and meaning • Morphemes can be classified into free morphemes and bound morphemes • Criteria for absolute homonymy are : 1. Their forms must be unrelated 2. all their forms must be identically • The distinction between homonymy and polysemy is not an easy one to make. conclusion

38. When homonyms can occur in the same positionin utterances, theresult is lexical ambiguity, for example, “I was on my wayto the bank.” Lexical ambiguity

39. Homonyms belong to different lexical categories and therefore donot give rise to ambiguity. For instance, seen is a form of the verbsee while scene is an unrelated noun; feet is a plural noun withconcrete reference, feat is a singular noun, rather abstract in nature;

40. Ambiguity occurs also because a longer linguistic form has: • aliteral sense • and a figurative sense. There’s a skeleton in our closet. • Skeleton in the closet can mean ‘an unfortunate event that is kept afamily secret.’ With this meaning skeleton in the closet is a singlelexeme; • with its ‘literal’ meaning it is a phrase composed of severallexemes.

41. There are two points which are obvious about ‘sentence meaning’ the meaning of a sentence derivesfrom the meanings of its constituent lexemes and from the grammaticalmeanings it contains. Second, at least if the sentence is a statement Sentence meaning

42. ‘Albert Thompson opened the first flour mill inWaterton.’ true or not (contradiction)??

43. Truth-conditional semantics is based on the notion that thecore meaning of any sentence (any statement) is its truth conditions. Any speaker of the language knows these conditions. If a sentenceis true (or false), what other sentences, expressing partly the same, partly different conditions, can be judged by this sentence?

44. In SEMANTIC we are interested in the instances when the language of the messageimplicates some additional meaning that accounts for our inference. examples. One team consisted of six students from Felman College. One team consisted of the six students from Felman College.

45. If two homonyms can occur in the same place in an utterance,the result is lexical ambiguity. Truth-conditional semantics is the study of meaning through aconsideration of the conditions that must exist for a sentence to betrue, and how the truth of one sentence relates to the truth or falsityof other sentences. summary

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