Seven types of meaning in Semantics

Geoffrey Leech's Seven Types of Semantics in Brief.

👉Conceptual meaning = Logical, cognitive, or denotative content.

👉Connotative meaning = What is communicated by virtue of what language refers to.

👉Stylistic/Social meaning = What is communicated of the social circumstances of language use.

👉Affective meaning = What is communicated of the feeling and attitudes of the speaker/writer.

👉Reflected meaning = What is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression.

👉Collocative meaning = What is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of another word.

👉Thematic meaning =What is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.

1. A toy block could be called a block, a cube, a toy.

2. A child could be called a child, kid, boy, girl, son, daughter.