====Word 行业资料分享--可编辑版本--双击可删==== 源-于-网-络-收-集 Chapter 5 Semantics 语义学 一、定义 1
semantics 语义学: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning in language
语义学可以简单地定义为对意义的将研究
二、知识点 5
2 Different views of meaning 意义研究的不同观点 The naming theory 命名论 (by 希腊Scholar Plato) The naming theory 命名论: Words are just names or labels for things
词语只不过是其代表的事物的名字或标记
desk— a piece of furniture with a flat top and four legs
The limitations of this theory 局限性: 1
This theory seems applicable to nouns only
这一理论看起来仅适用于名词 (Some words are definitelynot lables of object: eg
jump, quickly, pretty, and, in, hearted, think, hard, slowly…) 2
There are nouns which denote things that do not exist in the real world: ghost, gragon, unicorn 麒麟
有些名词是指世界中根本就不存在的事物
Nouns that do not refer to physical object,
