Semantics I acknowledgements
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| 2.4.6 Collocative meaning Collocative meaning is the words, which are considered to have individual lexical items or share common ground in meaning but maybe distinguish in their occurance. For example, pretty and handsome mean good looking, but they can be distinguished in their occurance with the nouns followed, as list below Pretty handsome - Girl - oy - Woman man - Flower car - Garden vessel - Etc etc. The words, like green also collocatives with grass, and dark with night. The term collocate is a linguistic term to stand for the collocative words. 2.4.7 Thematic Meaning The seven types of meaning, that is thematic meaning is what is communicated by the way in which a speaker or writer organizes the message in terms of ordering, focus and emphasis. It is the choice among expressions which have the same sense but different in communicative values. Let’s examine the sentences below The boy kills the snake. - The snake is killed by the boy. Even though these two sentences have the same meaning but their ordering made them somewhat different in their communicative values. One tells us something that after walking with afar distance, they arrived in the city. SEMANTICS Page Another sentence tells us that they want to seethe crowded of people or high buildings, thus in the city, they arrived. Download 332.89 Kb. Share with your friends:
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