【正确答案】正确答案：The seven types of meaning were first postulated by G. Leech. They are respectively illustrated as follows: (1) Conceptual meaning, which refers to logical, cognitive, or denotative content. This type of meaning is "denotative" in that it is concerned with the relationship between a word and the thing it denotes, or refers to. (2) Connotative meaning, what is communicated by virtue of what language refers to. It refers to some additional, especially emotive, meaning. (3) Social meaning, referring to what is communicated of the social circumstances of language use. (4) Affective meaning, which refers to what is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer. (5) Reflected meaning, which refers to 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. The five types of meanings from (2) to (6) are collectively known as Associative meaning in the sense that an elementary associated theory of mental connections is enough to explain their use. (7) Thematic meaning, what is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis. It is more peripheral since it is only determined by the order of the words in a sentence and the different prominence they each receive.