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What is 'cognitive meaning'?
Terminology that conveys information.
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What is an ambiguous expression?
One that can be interpreted as to having more than one meaning.
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What is conventional connotation?
Term that includes the attributes that the term commonly calls forth in the minds of competent speakers of the language.
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Stipulative Defintion
Assigns a meaning to a word for the first time. "Coining a word" To replace a complex expression with a simpler one.
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Lexical Defintions
Reports the meaning that a word already has in language. A dictionary definition.
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Precising Definitions
Reduces the vagueness of a word.
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Theoretical Definition
Suggests a theory that gives a certain characterization to the entities that the term denotes.
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Extensional (denotative) definitions
Assigns meaning to a term by indicating the members of the class that the definiendum denotes. (Point, name individually, name in groups)
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Demonstrrative (ostensive) definition
Point to it.
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Lexical definitions should conform to the standards of proper grammar, T/F?
- True
- Ex: "Vacation" means a period during which activity is suspended from work or school.
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T/F Lexical definitions should convey essential meaning of the world being defined.
True
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T/F: Lexical definition should either be too broad nor too narrow
False, they should be neither.
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T/F: Lexical definition should NOT be negative when it can be positive
True
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Lexical definition shouldn't avoid figurative, vague, or ambiguous language.
False, it should
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Lexical definition should avoid affective terminology, T/F?
True
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Should lexical defintion indicate the context to which the definiens pertains?
Yes
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