PPT-Finding the True Meaning of a Word

Step 1 Identify the PIE for the following words Affidavit Witness Scientific Advisory Confirm Epidermis Fealty Spiritual Inspire Nice Finding the True Meaning of a Word Step 2 Find three cognates in various Indo European languages preferably Latin French English Germanic or Greek. “. the communicative value an expression has by virtue of. . what it refers to. , . over and above its purely conceptual content” (Leech, 1974: 14) . For example, . the word ‘woman’ is defined conceptually by three properties ‘human’, ‘female’, ‘adult’. In addition, the word includes other psychological and social properties such as ‘gregarious’, ‘subject to maternal instinct’. Leech maintains that ‘woman’ has the putative properties of being frail, prone to tears, and emotional. A Word on Semantics . the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and . sub branches . of semantics, including . formal semantics. , which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, . Indexicals. Introduction to Pragmatics. Elizabeth . Coppock. HHU, Summer 2012. Indexicals. Indexical. : A word whose referent is dependent on the context of use, which provides a rule which determines the referent in terms of certain aspects of the context. . Use theory: history & motivation. The Causal-Historical Theory. Last time we learned about the causal-historical theory of reference. . The Causal-Historical Theory. Let’s call that baby ‘Feynman’. What do you usually do when you come to a word you do not know while reading. ?. a. ) look it up in the dictionary?. b) ask your teacher. c) ask a friend?. d) try to guess what it means. Advantages of . Use theory: history & motivation. The Causal-Historical Theory. Last time we learned about the causal-historical theory of reference. According to Kripke’s model, names and natural kind terms have their referenced initially fixed by . 2. Learning Outcomes. Recognize how suffixes are used when building medical words.. Identify adjective, noun, and diminutive suffixes.. Be aware of suffixes that have more than one meaning.. Learning Outcomes. Document #: TX001070. God Desires…. God constantly calls us to relationship with him.. We are invited into communion with God in order to experience the grace of his saving love.. © Leigh Prather/Shutterstock.com. Doyle by Avi CHAPTER 1 WORD SENTENCE FROM TEXT MEANING agog pg. 5 “There = became instantly agog at the mass o f ships that lay before us͕ masts and spars thick as bristles on a brush& Semantics studies . the meaning of words and other parts of language, . it is . the systematic study of meaning. The study of meaning can be undertaken in various ways. Speakers of a language have an implicit knowledge about what is meaningful in their language and . 1A. 1. A, D. 2. C, B. 3. C, D. 4. C, B. 5. B, A. 6. C, B. 7. D, B. 8. C, A. 9. A, D. 10. B, C. 1B. 1. EXCRUCIATING. 2. BRUSQUENESS. 3. TURBULENT. 4. DEMEAN. 5. PROPRIETOR. 6. REBUFFED. 7. AVID. 8. RESILIENT. B. ETH. J. OHNSON. J. ANET. M. G. OLDSTEIN. © 2011 Townsend Press. Unit Three: Chapter 13. • . acquiesce . •. delineate. •. articulate . •. diffident. •. belittle . •. laconic. •. Q1. . Embedded. (a) Dislodged. (b) Ingrained. (c) Nonintegrated. (d) Defenestrated. (e) Displaced. S1. Ans. (b) . Sol. Embedded means implanted. . Ingrained means firmly fixed or established; difficult to change. . Introduction. The Scope of Scripture Interpretation. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”. .