Seventypesofmeaning.doc

Seven types of meaning:

1. conceptual meaning or sense

Logical,cognitive,
Denotative meaning

Associative meaning
2.connotative
meaning
What is communicated by
Virtue of what language
Refers to
3.stylistic
meaning
What is communicated by
The social circumstances of language use
4.affective meaning
What is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of
The speakers/writer
5.reflected meaning
What is communicated
Through association with
Another sense of the same
expression
6.Collocative meaning
What is communicated
Through association with
Words which tend to occur
In the environment of another word.
7. thematic meaning
What is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.