The Language of Word Meaning

Journal of Literary Semantics. Vol. 32. No, 2. Pp. 197-200., 2004

This anthology contains a collection of essays on how to approach and define the notion of word meaning. It focuses on the mental lexicon as outlined in the Generative Lexicon Theory. The authors come from various disciplines: Linguistics, philosophy, and computational linguistics.

Journal of Literary Semantics, 2003

This volume is a collection of original contributions from outstanding scholars in linguistics, philosophy, and computational linguistics exploring the relation between word meaning and human linguistic creativity …. The discussions are centered around the newly emerging view of the mental lexicon, as outlined in the Generative Lexicon theory [Pustejovsky, 1995, 1998], which proposes a unified model for defining word meaning. The individual contributors present their evidence for a generative approach as well as critical perspectives, which provides for a volume where word meaning is viewed not only from a particular angle or from a particular concern, but from a wide variety of topics, each introduced and explained by the editors. (p. i).

The meaning of a sentence is not always derived from the meanings of the words it is composed of. It may mean much more or much less than it says. This article focuses on some cases in which the exact meaning of words which a sentence consists of is misleading, incomplete or ambiguous for proper understanding of what is going on.

Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal

This research aims to describe the position of meaning in language in the realm of philosophy; describes the thoughts and focus of language philosophy on meaning in language in the 20th century; and describes the impact of philosophy on research in contemporary linguistics. Literature study and text analysis methods were carried out to elaborate on the relationship between language and philosophy, the thoughts and focus of the philosophy of language, as well as the implications of the philosophy of language for contemporary linguistics research. There are four stages of activity in this research, namely (1) preparing the tools needed; (2) preparing a working bibliography; (3) arranging working time; and (4) reading and taking notes on research materials. The data collected is information and facts from various scientific works on the contemporary philosophy of language & linguistics. The data analysis phase was carried out when recording the information and facts and grouping them b...

Preface Three years after the 1978 conference on" Semantics from different points of view"(see Bauerle/Egli/von Stechow (eds), Semantics from different points of view, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 1980), the Sonderfor-schungsbereich 99 (" Linguistics") organized a ...

Components of Emotional Meaning, 2013

This paper examines meaning in language. It is therefore a study in semantics. Semantics is the study of meaning in terms of the linguistics. Semantics begins from the stopping point of syntax and ends from where pragmatics begins. A separate discipline in the study of language, semantics has existed for decades. The term semantics was first used by Breal in 1987 and it does not suggest that there had never been speculations about the nature of meaning (Ogbulogo (2005). Words, phrases and sentences are used to convey messages in natural languages. Semantics is the study of meaning systems in language. If meaning is a system, then language is systematic in nature. In this paper, we investigate the nature of meaning to locate the significance of semantics in contemporary linguistics. Frege, cited in Sandt (1988:1) rightly notes that “... [If ] anything is asserted there is always an obvious presupposition that the simple or compound proper names used have reference.” Hinging on different submissions in the literature, we conclude that meaning is: socio-cultural, dynamic, grammar-driven, conventional, representative (referential), individualistic (non-conventional) and is not exhaustive.

Journal of Pragmatics, 2018

About the meanings of words and letters, as well as about combinations of different meanings, 2021

The title of this essay seems somewhat unusual and vague, but I think that I will explain it in the course of my presentation, and thus everything will fall into place. In fact, this work is devoted to the analysis of the concept of "meaning", which I subject to a serious revision, offering for it a number of new interpretations and practical applications. I'll start with the reasons that prompted me to take this somewhat risky and far-reaching step.