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Different types of meanings

Meaning is the unity of generalization, communication and thinking. Meaning - representation of a concept; - takes one of the properties, by which a concept is characterized and makes it represent the concept as a whole; - in reference to concept becomes, as it were, a kind of metonymy. There are followings types of meanings: 1. Grammatical meaning - refers our mind to relations between words or to some forms of words or constructions bearing upon their structural functions in the lan­guage-as-a-system. 2. Lexical meaning - refers the mind to some concrete concept, phenomenon, or thing of objective reality, whether real or imaginary; - a means by which a word-form is made to express a definite concept; - are closely related to a concept; - are sometimes identified with a con­cept. 3. Logical meaning - the precise naming of a feature of the idea, phenomenon or object; - the name by which we recognize the whole of the concept; - is liable to change; - of one word may de­note different concepts; - has reference not directly to things or phenomena of objective reality. 4. Nominal meaning - indicates a particular object out of a class; - serves the purpose of singling out one definite and singular object out of a whole class of similar objects. 5. Emotive meaning - also materializes a concept in the word, but, unlike logical meaning, it has reference not directly to things or phenomena of objective reality, but to the feelings and emotions of the speaker towards these thighs or to his emotions as such; - bears reference to things, phenomena or ideas through a kind of evaluation of them; I feel so darned lonely. (Gr.Green) - has function to reveal the subjec­tive, evaluating attitude of the writer to the things or events spoken of; She has not a flirt, not even a coquette. (Galsworthy). 6. Contextual meaning a meaning imposed by and depends on the context.