Chapter5 Semantics
1. Definition
1.
鍛藉悕璁?/p>
The naming theory
Proposed
by
the
ancient
Greek
scholar
Plato.
According
to
this
theory,
the
linguistic forms or symbols, in other words, the words used in a language are taken
to be labels of the objects they stand for, so words are just names or labels for
things.(
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)
2.
鎰忓康璁?/p>
The conceptualist view Ogden and Richards
It holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers
to; rather, in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation
of concepts in the mind.
3.
璇璁?/p>
Conceptualism
It鈥檚
based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce
meaning to observable contexts. Here are two kinds of context: the situational and
the linguistic context.
4.
琛屼负涓讳箟璁?/p>
Behaviorism
It refers to the attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the