Types of

Meaning in
Semantic
 Conceptual Meaning
Logical, cognitive or connotative content and
dictionary deffinition.
 Connotative Meaning
communicative value of an expression over and
above its purely conceptual content
 Social Meaning

telling us something about the regional or social

origin of the speaker, related to the situation in which
an utterance is used.
 Affective Meaning

What is communicated of the feelings and attitudes

of the Speaker or Writer through language.
 Reflected Meaning
What is communicated through associations with
another Sense of the same world.
 Collocative Meaning
What is communicated through associations with
words which co-occur with another word.
 Thematic Meaning
What is communicated by the way in which the
message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.
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