Types of Meanings

Question 1

Denotative meaning

Answer 1

Dictionary meaning of a word e.g. the word bachelor means an unmarried man

Question 2

Connotative meaning

Answer 2

Emotional meaning associated with a word e.g. red has connotations of danger

Question 3

Reflected meaning

Answer 3

adds additional meaning from other occurences of the same or similar words in certain contexts e.g. chronic means recurring but also means bad

Question 4

Social meaning

Answer 4

associated beliefs about a social groups and markers e.g. craic has social meaning of northernness or irishness

Question 5

Affective meaning

Answer 5

Personel or emotional expression of the spaker or writer e.g referring to someone old as a coffin dodger instead of a senior citizen implies the attitudes of the speaker towards the subject

Question 6

collocative meaning

Answer 6

derived from words that frequently appear together e.g. handsome has a collocations of men since handsome women is an uncommon description

Question 7

Semantic field

Answer 7

words and phrases that connect to a specific theme, topic or genre

Question 8

Synonym

Answer 8

Words that share similar or identical meaning

Question 9

Antonym

Answer 9

Words that have opposite meanings

Question 10

Hypernyms

Answer 10

Words that label categories e.g. animal (category includes dog, cat and rabbit)

Question 11

Hyponyms

Answer 11

Words that can be included in a larger, more general category e.g. the hyponyms car, bus, aero plane as a form of the hyponym transport

Question 12

Sociolect

Answer 12

Language style used in a particular social group

Question 13

Neology

Answer 13

the process of new word formation e.g. compounds, acronyms, initialisms