Types of Lexical Meaning

1. Types of Lexical Meaning

2.

Logical
meaning
Primary/secondary
Emotive
meaning
Contextual
meaning
Nominal
meaning

3. Logical meaning

Animal
flesh
MEAT
MEAT
food
?

4. Emotive meaning Diminutive suffixes

Girly
Birdy
Ringlet
Sunny

5. Rhyming reduplication

• Helter-skelter (disorderly haste)
• Hurly-burly (commotion)
• Higgledy-piggledy (in a confused manner)
• Riff-raff (disreputable people)

6.

• Nicknamed the Helter-Skelter and the Hubble
Bubble, the tower is a continuous loop of steel
coiling upwards to a planned height of 115m
(377ft), making it the largest piece of public
art in Britain.
• Mr Erdogan, who was prime minister at the
time, said the demonstrations were the work
of "riff-raff".

7. Emotive meaning

• Terrific
• Magnificent
• Swell
• Superb
• I am damn cold

8. Nominal meaning

• Mr. Goldsmith
• The Nos and the Don’t Knows will greatly
outnumber the Yesses.