Lexical meaning

Question 1

Propositional

Answer 1

• the relation between a word of an utterance and what it refers to or describes in a real or imaginary world
  = signifier matches with signifee
• we can judge an utterance as true or false

Question 2

Expressive

Answer 2

• the speaker feeling rather than to what words or utterances refer to
• word can have the same propositional meaning but differ in their expressive meaning

Question 3

Presupposed

Answer 3

co-occurrence of restrictions (restriction on what other words we expect to see before or after a particular lexical unit):
1. selectional
2. collocational

Question 4

Evoked

Answer 4

• something that evokes something in the mind of the receiver
• arises from:
  1. dialect
  2. register (mode, tenor, field)