Word meanings in contact

1. Word meanings in contact Kuiper and Allan Chapter 3.1.5

2. Word meanings in contact • antonymous adjectives and nouns • hot day vs hot chocolate • disambiguation • single 'unmarried' or 'one only' • single book cannot mean 'unmarried book'. • compositionality • e.g. big house

3. Word meanings in contact (contd.) • Sense and denotation • the sense of nouns and fuzzy sets denoted • Collocation • e.g. white wine

4. Pragmatics • that part of the meaning of an utterance which is not the message carried by the code

5. Referring • Expressions (typically containing a noun) may be referring expressions. • They are expressions which can be used to refer to people, things, actions etc. • Referring is something speakers use words to do.

6. Word association and connotation • positive associations and connotations, e.g. of the word home. • negative associations and connotations, e.g. of the word hovel. • pragmatics, or that part of the meaning of an utterance which is not the message. • euphemism, e.g. bathroom. • taboo words