Students: Chapter Resources
Chapter 2
Checklist of Key Notions
2.2 Descriptive meaning
- descriptive meaning
- reference, referent
- situation referred to
- proposition
- truth
- denotation
- truth conditions
- sentence type
- declarative sentence
- interrogative sentence
- imperative sentence
2.3 Meaning and social interaction
- social meaning
- rules of social conduct
- formality
- terms of address
- phrases with social meaning
2.4 Meaning and subjectivity
- expressive meaning
- subjectivity
- expressives
- interjections
- swear words
2.5 Connotations
- connotations
- euphemism
- political correctness
- taboos
Artwork
- Figure 2.1 The semiotic triangle for a content word in general
- Figure 2.2 The semiotic triangle for a content word token
- Figure 2.3 The semiotic triangle for a sentence
- Figure 2.4 Dimensions and levels of meaning
- Table 2.1 Five referents of sentence (1)
- Table 2.2 Descriptive meaning of the elements of sentence (1)
- Table 2.3 Social meaning
- Table 2.4 Expressive meaning
- Table 2.5 Dimensions of meaning
© Sebastian Löbner 2013