====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。 Eg. 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。 3. Nouns that do not refer to physical object, but abstract notions such as joy and impulse. 有些名词并不是指实物性的物体，而是指： joy, impulse 刺激，这样的抽象概念。 The conceptualist [k�n'septjʊ�lɪst] view 概念论（Ogden 和Richards 提出classic semantic triangle 经典语意三角） The conceptualist view: The conceptualist view: There is no direct link between language and the real world; rather, in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind..( 语言和真实世界之间并没有直接联系，而是在见到这个语言符号symbol 后，我们在大脑思维中的媒介相连，记起此符号相对应的概念thought/reference，再融入现实世界所指的东西referent。) ====Word 行业资料分享--可编辑版本--双击可删==== 源-于-网-络-收-集 Semantic triangle 语义三角：(p63y 英 p180-181 中) (直线表示两者之间有直接联系，虚线表示两者之间无直接联系。) 这一理论的主要缺点是人们并不清楚符号与概念或意念之间到底有什么精确的联系。有...
