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Lexical meaning: sense and denotation

I recently refered to some other sections Lexical meaning: homonymy, polysemy, synonymy and The diversity of meaning in 5th chapter Semantics of Lyons’ book Language and Linguistics. Let’s do the next section over, which is given the title seen above in this article’s heading. This section is solely related to what we got to know […]

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Lexical meaning: homonymy, polysemy, synonymy

I recently refered to yet another section The diversity of meaning in the chapter 5 Semantics in Lyons’ Language and Linguistics. And I will now refer to a section that is given the title as seen above in this article’s heading. The purpose of this section is to differentiate the three terms of homonymy, polsysemy […]

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The diversity of meaning

The following abstract will refer to a chapter in John Lyons Language and Linguistics on the topic of Semantics. In particular this specific abstract concerns on the chapter’s section The diversity of meaning as is refered to in the title of this posting. I once started to read a german translation but bought me the […]

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Die Vielgestaltigkeit von Bedeutung

So lautet die Überschriftt eines Unterkapitels im Kapitel 5 über Semantik in einem Buch (Die Sprache) von John Lyons. Lyons erläutert zunächst ein paar philosophische Grundlagen, genauer gesagt zwei Prämissen, die der Frage “was ist Bedeutung?” zu Grunde liegen.