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Jan 23, 2019 · In semantics, conceptual meaning is the literal or core sense of a word. There is nothing read into the term, no subtext; it's just the straightforward, literal, dictionary definition of the word. The term is also called denotation or cognitive meaning.
- Richard Nordquist
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Conceptual semantics is a framework for semantic analysis developed mainly by Ray Jackendoff in 1976. Its aim is to provide a characterization of the conceptual elements by which a person understands words and sentences, and thus to provide an explanatory semantic representation (title of a Jackendoff 1976 paper).
Conceptual Role Semantics In the philosophy of language , conceptual role semantics (hereafter CRS) is a theory of what constitutes the meanings possessed by expressions of natural languages, or the propositions expressed by their utterance.
Conceptual Semantics takes the meanings of words and sentences to be structures in the minds of language users, and it takes phrases to refer not to the world per se, but rather to the world as conceptualized by language users.
- Ray Jackendoff
- 2019
Jun 2, 2015 · According to Conceptual Semantics, word meanings are interface representations that connect a specialized body of linguistic knowledge (e.g., morphosyntactic knowledge) and non-linguistic cognition. Word meanings are thus modeled as hybrid representations combining linguistic features (e.g., syntactic tags) and conceptual elements grounded in ...
Jan 26, 2010 · One sort of theory of meaning—a semantic theory—is a specification of the meanings of the words and sentences of some symbol system. Semantic theories thus answer the question, “What is the meaning of this or that expression?”
Turning to lexical semantics, Gärdenfors argues that a unified theory of word meaning can be developed by using conceptual spaces. He shows that the meaning of different word classes can be given a cognitive grounding, and offers semantic analyses of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and prepositions.
