Conceptual Meaning Conceptual Meaning sometimes called denotative\ or cognitive\ meaning) is widely assumed to be the central factor in linguistic communication

Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment

Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language

国家开放大学：2007—2008学年第二学期“开放本科”英语专业语言与应用语言学期末试题（7月）

John lyons gives us ten sentences to discuss what meaning is: )What is the meaning of “sesquipedalian? (signify) 2)I did not mean to hurt you (intend)

Chapter one 1. Definition of language There is no universally accepted definition of language. But one definition is more popular language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.(语言是人类用 来交际的具有任意性的语音符号体系。)

The English people are of mixed blood. At the beginning of the fifth century Britain was invaded by three tribes from the Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes

1. Morphology In American English, a number of irregular verbs have become regularised, while remaining irregular in British English: a)In many instances, it is only the voicing of the past tense morpheme -(e)d which has been changed to regularise the verb:

小学三年级英语上册第三单元 Unit 3 知识归纳

国家开放大学：2006—2007学年第二学期“开放本科”英语专业语言与应用语言学期末试题（7月）