ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lingua Franca, Lexical Item, Lexeme
24 Apr 2013
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Icon: based on a similarity between the carrier of meaning and what it refers to (a map refers iconically to the territory it depicts, pointing with a finger is iconic) Indices (index): based on direct contact in space of time (smoke relates indexically to fire, red spots on the face to chickenpox) Linguistic signs: most developed devices to carry meaning. Lexicon: the vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge- development of a word. Syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language) Phoneme: any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another (p, b, d, and t in the words pad, pat, bad, bat) Lexeme: basic lexical unit of a language, consisting of one word or several words. Double articulation: with a limited number of sounds, one can generate an unlimited number of meaningful units.
