LECTURE №6-7 SEMASIOLOGY

Semasiology as the branch of Linguistics.

Referential and Functional approaches to word-meaning.

The classification of meanings of words.

Semantic structure of the word.

Change of meaning.

Transference of meaning.

Semasiology as the branch of Linguistics

The branchthe study of language concenredwith the meaning' of words is called semasiology. The term comes from Greek semasia "signification" (from sema 'sign' and logos word)

Meaning is one of the most important word's characteristics. The interrelation between the structural pattern 0f the word and its lexical meaning is called motivation. There are three main tipes of motivation: phonetical,morphological, and semantic. Phonetical motivation is observed in words whose sound-clusters imitate the sounds they signify (e.g. buzz, clip, hiss, whisper, snap, gaggle, etc.). Morphological motivation is apparent part in derived words and nonradiomatic compounds due to their word-formation pattern (e.g. worker (work + -er) - 'one who works', rewrite (re- + write) - 'write again

.Semantic motivationis the relationship between the direct and the transferred meaning of the word, 2. Referential and Functional approaches to word-meaning

In modern linguistics word-meaning are studied from different angles of view:

a)through establishing the interrelations between words and concepts which they denote - the so-called referential approach;

b)through the observations of the functional use of a word in speech - the functional approach; The referential approach is traditionally represented by the following triangle:

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