Semantics Part 1
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- Q1the study of meaning; meaningsemantics30s
- Q2(coined by De Saussure:) an expression with its meaning. It is like a coin with two inseparable sides, sound and meaning.the linguistic sign30s
- Q3(see De Saussure) one side of the linguistic sign: the sound representation of a signthe signifier30s
- Q4(see De Saussure) one side of the linguistic sign: the mental concept, the 'meaning' of a sign.the signified30s
- Q5without a logic, intrinsic relationshiparbitrary30s
- Q6(see Frege:) the core features of a sign that help to identify the reference, the core 'meaning'.sense30s
- Q7(see Frege:) the object in the real world to which a sign with its sense refers to.reference30s
- Q8concept in semantics which states that word meanings don't have clear-cut limits.fuzziness30s
- Q9concept in semantics which states that words of one semantic 'family' bear similarity, but NOT ONE factor which links them all.family resemblance30s
- Q10Speakers analyze a 'best' exemplar of a word. New examples are matched against it. If it is a 'reasonable fit', then it's an exemplar of that word, too.prototype theory30s
- Q11part of our mind in which word meanings are storedthe lexicon30s
- Q12imaginative concept of how our lexicon is organizedthe "word web"30s