Linguistics: semantics
Terms
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- What is linguistic meaning?
- encompasses both sense and reference
- What is social meaning?
- what one relies on when one identifies certain social characteristics of speakers and situation from the character of the language used
- What is affective meaning?
- emotional connotations that come into play
- Polysemy
- one word and several meanings
- homograph
- same spelling, different meaning
- homophone
- same pronunciations, different senses (sea, see)
- personal deixis
- personal pronouns
- spatial deixis
- this, that
- temporal deixis
- before, last year
- textual deixis
- that
- Content words
- nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, etc.
- Function words
- conjunctions, determiners
- Semantic roles
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Agent/patient
Experiencers
Recipients
Benefactives
Locatives
Temporals
Instrument/Causes