Seven Types Of Meaning Analysis

Analyse the Seven Types of Meaning by Leech According to the Recorded Conversation.
Conceptual Meaning
Conceptual meaning also called as denotative or cognitive meaning. According to Jackendoff (as cited in Jaszczolt, 2002), conceptual meaning is the information structure that encoded in our humans minds.
In the recorded conversation, there are many dialogues that contain characteristic of conceptual meaning which are:
i. Well, in other word, conceptual meaning is the meaning that we can find in dictionary. For example, Mother. In dictionary, the concept of mother is a human, an adult and is a female. ii. Well, connotative meaning is what we communicated by virtue of what language refers to. iii. Yes. Social meaning is the slang that use by people in their daily conversation and it is informal. iv. The

Affective Meaning According to Murphy and Koskela (2010), affective meaning can be defined as a speaker expressed their emotional attitudes through language. The dialogues in the recorded conversation that have affective meaning are:
i. Oh, I am sorry that I am late because there’s no bus just now! ii. What?! Seven?! It’s so many! How can I remember that all seven types of meaning? iii. No no no, I just give an example. I didn’t mean that. (laughing) iv. For example, “Oh gosh! I hate you, you idiot!”
v. Wow~ vi. Hmm… (wondering) vii. Huh? (wondering)

All the words above that have italic depicted the mood and emotions of the speaker, express it through language to the listener. Sentence i bring the meaning of the speaker is apologising. Sentence ii, the speaker expresses that he was shocking. For sentence iii, the speaker was trying to refuse. Sentence iv the speaker is angry while sentence v depicted the speaker was astonishment. Sentence vi and vii showed that the listener is wondering what the speaker is talking about.
Reflected