Conceptual meaning:
It is also called logical or cognitive meaning.
It is the central factor or the core meaning in linguistic communication.
The aim of conceptual meaning is to provide an appropriate semantic
representation to a sentence or statement.
For example;
Bird can be described as a flying, two legged, and egg laying creature with
features and wings.
Principles
1. Contrastiveness
it underlies the classification of sounds of phonology.
For example
+Human, -male, +Adult
+Human, +female ,-Adult
2. Structure
Larger linguistics units are built up out of smaller units
Associative meanig:
Additional meaning which is attached to the words. For example;
beautiful life.
Types:
Conotative meaning
Social meaning
Affective meaning
Reflected meaning
Collocative meaning
Connotative meaning:
It is communicative value of an expression over and above its
purely conceptual content.
It vary age to age and society to society and individual to
individual.
For example;
Father…….. Strength, strong will, tolerance
Business person……… wealth, generosity
Social Meaning:
The meaning conveyed by the piece of language about the social
context of its use is called social meaning.
It is related to the situation in which an utterance is used.
It is the formality of the expression.
Example;
Mother….. Formal , Mama……… child’s language
Father….., papa, old boy(men)
Affective meaning
It is what is conveyed about the personal feelings or attitude
towards the listener.
Example;
Politician……… a national leader, a wise man
‘’I hate for it’’.
Reflected meaning;
It arise when a word has more than one conceptual meaning.
Daffodils
For example;
He took the drugs.
Enjoy yourself.
Collocative meaning
When one word is used with one word it will convey one meaning
but when one word is used with other word its meaning change.
Basically formed by the people’s habit in using language in long
term process.
Example;
fast……… reading, color, road, car…….. Have a fast;
fast has such collocative meanings as ………. Quick moving,
capable of high speed, firmly fixed, or abstaining from food for a
time.
Thematic meaning:
What is communicated by the way in which a speaker or writer
organizes the message in terms of ordering, focus and emphasis.
Example;
Misha broke the window.
The window was broken by Misha.
