TY - JOUR
T1 - Inferences about word meanings
AU - Anderson, Richard C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this article was supported in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement under Cooperative Agreement G-0087-C1 001. Sections of the article overlap with a paper by R. Anderson and W. Nagy, which will appear in Volume 2 of the Handbook ofReading Research, edited by D. Pearson and others.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - This chapter describes the aspects of changes in meanings of the words depending upon the context and the implications that they have for the models of language understanding and production. Sense and reference are relatively context bound, whereas denotation and connotation are relatively context free. The standard view is that sentences have a literal compositional meaning independent of world knowledge, context, or speaker's intentions. Sentence meaning is supposed to be the unadorned linguistic interpretation, while utterance meaning includes elaborations based on linguistic context, situational context, and background knowledge. The possible models of word meaning can be conceived as differing on a continuum from maximally inclusive and maximally abstractive to minimally inclusive and abstractive.
AB - This chapter describes the aspects of changes in meanings of the words depending upon the context and the implications that they have for the models of language understanding and production. Sense and reference are relatively context bound, whereas denotation and connotation are relatively context free. The standard view is that sentences have a literal compositional meaning independent of world knowledge, context, or speaker's intentions. Sentence meaning is supposed to be the unadorned linguistic interpretation, while utterance meaning includes elaborations based on linguistic context, situational context, and background knowledge. The possible models of word meaning can be conceived as differing on a continuum from maximally inclusive and maximally abstractive to minimally inclusive and abstractive.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60245-5
DO - 10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60245-5
M3 - Article
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SN - 0079-7421
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory
JF - Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory
IS - C
ER -