LECTURE 4. Semasiology. Lexical meaning and semantic structure of a word

semantic structures

What are arranged on a different principle? Answer with a single words or term.

level

For a monosemantic word it is a word with one meaning. The what is excluded? Answer with a single words or term.

Lexical meaning

What is not homogeneous and it includes denotative and connotative components? Answer with a single words or term.

branch of Lexicology

The ________ concerned with the meaning of words is called SEMASIOLOGY.

word look

The ________ "possesses the denotative component.

dull knife

A(n) ________) c. Not loud or distinct (e.g.

analysis

Each separate meaning seems to be subject to structural analysis in which it may be represented as sets of the semantic component. This ________ shows that the word "dull "has not only a system of meanings but it has an inner structure of its own.

Usage of language

________ can not have any knowledge of the objects or phenomena of the real world around them unless this knowledge is embodied in words which have the same meaning for all speakers.

separate meaning

Each ________ seems to be subject to structural analysis in which it may be represented as sets of the semantic component.

Dull eyes

________) f. Hearing badly (e.g.

Dull ears

________) g. Not active h. Not clear or bright (e.g.

Lack of sharp c Lack of sound d Lack of light e Lack of eyesight f Lack of earsight g Lack of activity The transformed scheme of the semantic structure of dull

________ "shows that the centre holding together the complex semantic structure of this word is not one of the meaning but certain component that can be single out within each separate meaning.