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Lecture № 3. Semasiology. Types of meaning
Outline:

1. 
   The definition of semasiology
   
2. 
   Referential and functional approach to meaning.
   
3. 
   Types of meaning.
   

Keywords: semasiology, form and meaning, the referential approach the functional approach, lexical meaning
What is semasiology?
By definition Lexicology deals with words, word-forming morphemes (derivational affixes) and word-groups or phrases. All these linguistic units may be said to have meaning of some kind: they are all significant and therefore must be investigated both as to form and meaning. The branch of lexicology that is devoted to the study of meaning is known as S e m a s i o l o g y.
The word semasiology, greek in origin, consists of two morphemes semasia meaning ‘signification’ or ‘the meaning of a word’ and logos – ‘study’. The discipline concerned with question “What does the word mean?”regardless how they are pronounced.
Semasiology came into its own in the 1830’s. The German scholar Karl Reisig suggested this idea in his lectures of classical philology.
Meaning is one of the most controversial (спорный) terms in the theory of language. At first sight the understanding of this term seems to present no difficulty at all — it is freely used in teaching, interpreting and translation.
Meaning is a certain reflection in our mind of objects, phenomena or relations that makes part of the linguistic sign - its so-called inner facet, whereas the sound-form functions as its outer facet. Meaning opens its features in context.
There are broadly speaking two schools to Meaning of thought in present-day linguistics representing the main lines of contemporary thinking on the problem: the referential approach, which seeks to formulate the essence of meaning by establishing the interdependence between words and the things or concepts they denote, and the functional approach, which studies the functions of a word in speech and is less concerned with what meaning is than with how it works.