is defined as the study of word meaning in language
Sense (意义)
refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form
Reference (所指)
means what a linguistic form refers to in the real world
Concept (概念)
is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.
Denotation (外延)
is defined as the constant ,abstract, and basic meaning of a linguistic expression independent of context and situation.
Connotation (内涵)
refers to the emotional associations which are suggested by, or are part of the meaning of, a linguistic unit.
Componential analysis (成分分析法)
is the way to decompose the meaning of a word into its components
Semantic field (语义场)
The vocabulary of a language is not simply a listing of independent items, but is organized into areas, within which words interrelate and define each other in various ways. The areas are semantic fields
Hyponymy (上下义关系)
refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.
Synonymy (同义关系)
refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning.
Antonymy (反义关系)
refers to the oppositeness of meaning
Polysemy (多义性)
refers to the fact that the same one word may have more than one meaning
Homonymy (同音(同形)异义关系)
refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form
重点
What’s the criterion of John Lyons in classifying semantics into its sub-branches And how does he classify semantics
In terms of whether it falls within the scope of linguistics, John Lyons distinguishes between linguistic semantics and non-linguistic semantics
According John Lyons, semantics is one of the sub-branches of linguistics; it is generally defined as the study of meaning
What are the essential factors for determining sentence meaning