Logical meaning

Logical meaning is the exact naming of a feature of an idea, phenomenon or object. The meaning is also called referential or direct. Logical meanings may-change, and as a result the logical meanings of one word may denote different concepts. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between primary and secondary logical meaning. In some dictionaries we can find an extended list of primary and secondary logical meanings.

All the meanings fixed by English and American dictionaries comprise what is called the semantic structure of the word. Accidental meanings (in speech or writing) are not regarded as components of the semantic structure of the word. They are generally called contextual meanings.

Emotive meaning

The second type of meaning is called emotive because it stems from the emotions, the feelings connected with the given thing or phenomenon. Emotive meaning serves to express one's individual, subjective attitude to the thing or idea. Emotive meaning may exist independently, it may co-exist with logical meaning and it may also appear in a context, thus acquiring contextual meaning.

There are definite morphological means by which a given word may acquire emotive meaning, for example: the use of the suffixes -y, -ie - as in girlie, birdie, sonny; -let - as in streamlet. The number of suffixes that convey emotive meaning in English is very small in comparison to the number that exists in Russian.

In the English language, as in other languages, there are certain words which are do not have logical meaning and have only emotive meaning. These words are interjections and other exclamatory words, like alas, oh, gosh, goodness gracious, etc. Certain adjectives also tend to lose their logical meaning and acquire strong emotive meaning, for example: wonderful, terrible, nice.

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