LING 1001 Lecture 16: Linguistics lecture 16
11 Apr 2016
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Dictionaries reflect how people use words (entries change when use changes, new words added when have staying power) Mental images differ between people, context can change image, default image is a prototype (doesn"t capture peripheral examples) Meaning comes from connection between concept and usage. Connection between sense (abstract/ mental representation of word"s meaning)and referent (real words instance, things that fit that category) Words can have sense but not referents, no real world examples. Can have meaning but not be possible (sense but no referents) Words can be related in various ways. Synonyms: have same reference (mean basically the same thing) Antonyms: have opposite meaning in some respect (about same thing) Can be one or the other or neither but not both at same time (mutually exclusive) Gradable pairs (being one doesn"t mean you"re other, stuff in the middle); can ask how x. Reverses: opposite in terms of movement or position (undoing)
