Semantics I acknowledgements
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- 2.4.5 Reflected meaning
| 2.4.4 Affective Meaning Affective meaning refers to meaning, which reflect the individual feeling of the speaker including his attitude to the speaker’s object he expresses. For example, with the object of getting people to be quiet, we SEMANTICS Page might say : I’m terribly sorry to interrupt, but I wonder if you would be so kind as to lower your voices a little. Politeness is include here, and factor such as a voice timbre is also necessary to affect. 2.4.5 Reflected meaning This sort of meaning arises in cases of multiple conceptual meaning. A sense of a word makes our reference to another sense. For example, the synonymous expression of the comforter and the holy ghost, both refer to Third Person of Trinity. Those two expression are used in church service, of which, according to Geoffrey Leech these expressions are influenced by everyday nonreligious meanings of comfort and ghost. So the comforter sounds warm and comforting, while the Holy Ghost sounds awesome. Reflected meanings are less obvious in poetry, in this case a high sensitivity to language is needed. We can see for example in a poem of Wilfred Owen Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides Full-nerved-still warm-to hard to stir Wilfred Owen meant to the word dear is expensively, but one feels in the context of the poem, to the sense beloved. In reflected meanings, words are said to be taboo in case that they are connected to its sex association. Cock was considered to be taboo in the former and replaced by rooster in its farmyard sense (as what was explained by Bloomfield. The replacement (of the former use which is taboo) to its latter form is called euphemism. In Indonesian we find many of this kind. |