Group presentation lexical semantics
- 1. TOPIC THE CONCEPTS OF THE THEORY OF SEMANTICS
- 2. Do you find meaning when you look at a tree? A tree does not mean, it just exists How does human language produce Meaning? How to account for the fact that elements of natural environment do not convey meaning? MEANINGLESSNESS OF NATURAL ENTITIES AND THE PROPERTY OF LANGUAGE TO MAKE SENSE/MEANING
- 5. LANGUAGE Relationship inside language I think therefore I am s e n s e Relationship with outside world r e f e r e n c e a tree
- 7. A Sentence is an ideal string of words in accordance with grammatical rules of a language An utterance is any stretch of spoken language
- 8. SENTENCE UTTERANCE Artificial Natural sentence is read It is uttered Cannot slow or fast Slow or fast Begin with capital Letter Preceeded and followed by silence
- 10. sentence The Director is absent The Director is not arou sentence The Director has gone sentence The Director is not prese
- 12. A contradictory sentence is a sentence which propositional content is necessarily false eg Cats are human beings A paraphrase is a sentence which expresses the same proposition as another sentence eg John sold that car to Mary / Mary bought that car from John
- 13. Language as an activity is the main canal in meaning conception (say mean) The above mentioned concepts are responsible for the manufacturing of meaning Hence they are the concepts underlying semantics which is the science of meaning
- 14. Sense Connotation INSIDE LANGUAGE MEANINGFULNESS RAW MATERIALS OF MEANING Sentence-UtteranceProposition Processin g Reference Denotation OUTSIDE WORLD MEANINGLESSNESS MEANING PROCESSORS Analytic/synthetic sentence Contradictory sentence Paraphrase MEANING IS CONCEIVED