问答题 What are the seven types of meaning identified by G. Leech(1974)? What are the differences between/among them?
【正确答案】正确答案:G. Leech recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, as follows: 1)Conceptual meaning; logical, cognitive, or denotative content; 2)Connotative meaning: what is communicated by virtue of what language refers to; 3)Social meaning: what is communicated of the social, circumstances of language use; 4)Affective meaning; what is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer; 5)Reflected meaning: what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression; 6)Collocative meaning: what is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of another word; 7)Thematic meaning: what is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.(7 points) Leech says that the first type of meaning—conceptual meaning—makes up the central part. It is "denotative" in that it is concerned with the relationship between a word and the thing it denotes, or refers to.(2 points)In Leech"s system, as is the case in daily conversation, " connotative" refers to some additional, especially emotive, meaning. The difference between politician and statesman, for example, is connotative in that the former is derogatory while the latter is favorable. This type of meaning and the following four types are collectively known as associative meaning in the sense that an elementary associative theory of mental connections is enough to explain their use.(4 points)The last type, thematic meaning, is more peripheral since it is only determined by the order of the words in a sentence and the different prominence they each receive.(2 points)
【答案解析】解析:考查利奇提出的七种意义:概念意义、内涵意义、社会意义、情感意义、反射意义、搭配意义和主题意义。第一种意义,即概念意义,构成了意义的中心部分。这种意义是“外延”的,因为它关注词语跟它所指称事物之间的关系。第二种意义至第六种意义合起来称作联想意义,因为解释这些意义需要依靠一种关于思维关系的基本的联想理论。最后一种意义是主题意义,是更加外围的,因为它是由词序和词语重音所决定的。