Types of meaning

Types of meaning

1. Associative meaning

   • Reflected meaning
     • It´s a phenomenom where by a single word or phrase is associated with more than one sense or meaning
     • When more than one meaning surfacesshow at the same time
   • Affective meaning
     • Each individual will a different affective meaning for a word
     • The feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer
       • Each individual have their own experiences associate with a word
   • Social meaning
     • The meaning given to words based on the social contextthat they´re used in
       • Formal or informal register too that relays social menaing in some context
   • Connotative meaning
     • A word can be negative or positive, depending on the audience
       • The mening change over time or mean different things among differente societies
     • It´s also called denotation
   • Collocative meaning
     • It´s the meaning which a word acquires in the company of certain words
     • Words that are regulay found togeter

2. Conceptual meaning

   • Simple and literal dictionary definition of a word
     • It's is literal or central sense of a word
   • It´s also called denotation or cognitive meaning

3. Thematic meaning

   • It´s refers to what is communicated by the way in which a
     • Speaker or a writer organizes the message
       • In terms of ordering focus an emphasis

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