Open AccessRe-Visits the Grand Theory of Geoffrey Leech: Seven Types of Meaning
Author(s) -
Sandra Yunira,
Siska Fradina,
Mathilda Sumbayak,
Nunung Susilo Putri,
Tatum Derin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
reila
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2685-0818
pISSN - 2685-3906
DOI - 10.31849/reila.v1i3.3577
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , leech , linguistics , semantics (computer science) , psychology , field (mathematics) , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , world wide web , pure mathematics , programming language
Meaning is the field of the study discussed in the semantic field. Semantics is a branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words in languages. This present study would like to set thought and argues that the meaning of a word in language can be known with the foundation of semantic perspective. Therefore, this present study focused on explaining its thought based on the seven types of meaning and their descriptions in the book of Semantics by Geoffrey Leech: 1981. The research aims to classify and to identify seven types of meanings, and also to analyze Leech’s book and three article reviews of his theory. This present study uses a qualitative approach focusing on the words, phrases, and sentences regarding the theory. The result of this research believes that there are seven types of meaning just as Leech’s mentioned in his theory, namely conceptual, connotative, collocative, reflective, affective, social, and thematic. This present study also found that the seven types of meaning have variations in their descriptions which somehow liked to connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning and collocative meaning include to associative meaning.