{"id":1268,"date":"2024-12-03T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/?page_id=1268"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:45:04","slug":"6-lexical-semantics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Lexical semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the previous chapter, we discussed \u00a0the meaningful components that words are made of, but we have not yet discussed the meaning of words as a whole. This chapter will delve into the topic of word meaning, how it can be represented, how it relates to the world and the speakers\u2018 view of the world, and how it is influenced by context.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve completed this chapter, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>describe a word\u2019s meaning in terms of extension and intension<\/li>\n<li>distinguish between the denotation and the connotation of a given word<\/li>\n<li>analyze lexical relations<\/li>\n<li>write definitions<\/li>\n<li>distinguish between different kinds of ambiguity<\/li>\n<li>analyze what participants there are in a given semantic frame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-1-the-study-of-word-meaning\/\">6.1 The study of word meaning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-2-a-closer-look-at-reference-extension\/\">6.2 A closer look at reference: extension<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-3-from-extension-to-intension\/\">6.3 From extension to intension<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-4-how-to-represent-meaning\/\">6.4. How to represent meaning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-5-world-knowledge-and-word-meaning\/\">6.5 World knowledge and word meaning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-6-denotation-and-connotation\/\">6.6 Denotation and connotation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-7-word-senses\/\">6.7 Word senses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-8-lexical-relations\/\">6.8 Lexical relations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/6-lexical-semantics\/6-9-semantic-fields-and-frames\/\">6.9 Semantic fields and frames<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the previous chapter, we discussed \u00a0the meaningful components that words are made of, but we have not yet discussed the meaning of words as a whole. This chapter will delve into the topic of word meaning, how it can be represented, how it relates to the world and the speakers\u2018 view of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1268\/revisions\/1877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}