By Ni Kadek Widiantari

I Gede Vinayton Hendrawan

Naming Concepts Sense and Reference Kinds of meaning The Word as a Semantics

Unit

The signifier is a word in the language and the signified is the object in the world that it “stands for, refers to, or denotes”. The words that is to say to refer the things are called “names or label”.

“Sign” Theory by Ferdinand de Saussure

Tree

The linguistic sign consists of a signifier and a signified, these are, however, more strictly a sound image and a concept, both linked by a psychological 'associative' bond.

S ----------- r ……………s ----------- R

Stimulus------ words ----- Response, this view shows that meaning is as a

description from a situation which there are stimulus (S) that may cause someone to

say something (r) and the response ( R) is an effect of the words said by someone (s)

Reference is a term which is used when we are talking about the denotation of word.

Sense relates to the complex system of relationships that hold between the linguistic elements themselves.

First, make statemens is good, but better we also ask question or give order. Second, speech act.Thirdly, much of what we say is not a statement of fact but an evaluation. Fourthly language is often deeply

concerned with a variety of social relations.

Fifthly, we need not mean what we say.

Sixthly, presupposition is distinction from assertion.

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Not all words seem to have the same kind of the meaning.

It is not at all clear that the word is a clearly defined unit.

There is a problem with what have been called TRANSPARENT and OPAQUE words.

There are many words in English that are called PHONAESTHETIC

Semantic division seems to’ override’ word division.

Finally we have the problem of idioms