building for human habitation" is expressed in English by the word "house", in
Russian - "дом", but their meanings are not identical as
house does not possess the
meaning of "fixed residence of family or household", which is part of the meaning of
the Russian word
дом; it is expressed by another English word
home.
The difference between meaning and concept can also be observed by
comparing synonymous words and word-groups expressing the same concept but
possessing linguistic meaning which is felt as different in each of the units, e.g.
big,
large; to die to pass away, to join the majority, to kick the bucket; child, baby, babe,
infant.
Concepts are always emotionally neutral as they are a category of thought.
Language, however, expresses all possible aspects of human consciousness. Therefore
the meaning of many words not only conveys some reflection of objective reality but
also the speaker's attitude to what he is speaking about, his state of mind. Thus,
though the synonyms
big, large, tremendous denote the same concept of size, the
emotive charge of the word
tremendous is much heavier than that of the other word.
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.
Grammatical meaning is defined as the expression in Speech of relationships
between words. The grammatical meaning is more abstract and more generalised than
the lexical meaning. It is recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different
words as the meaning of plurality in the following words
students, boob, windows,
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