CONCEPT OF MEANING

A PRESENTATION BY:

Apriyanti Nababan
(20186012023)
 What’s on this chapter?

Various Meanings of
What is Meaning?
The Word “Mean”
 What is Meaning?
• It’s not enough to know the sounds and the sounds pattern in
language. Just being able to pronounce an English word does not
mean that one as mastered that word if he does not know anything
about meaning of that word. It is just like a parrot that produce a
word-like utterance “good morning” but said in the afternoon.
Therefore, if one does not know a language, the sounds spoken to
him will be only incomprehensible.
• The relationship between speech sounds and meanings they
represent is, for the most part, an arbitrary. We should learn that
the sounds represented by the letters ‘door’ in the written form
signify the concept of ‘door’ which is represented ‘pintu’ in
indonesian and ‘lawang’ in javanese. This example shows that the
sounds of words are only given meaning by the language in which
they occur. The physical attributes of object do not determine their
pronounciation in any language.
 Meaning can be understood as “information”
we receive through our five senses from our
environment. It can be received through our
ears, eyes, nose, skin, and even our tongue.
While in the dark at home, through our skin
touching something, we will know what thing it
is. We will know through our smelling if
something is burning . We can know that certain
sound indicates that a motorcycles is passingby
and so on.
 Various Meanings of the word
“Mean”
It has just been said that the various
meanings of the word ‘mean’ and
‘meaning’ illustrated above are
distinguishable. The following are the
various meaning of the word ‘mean’ as
adjective , verb, and noun taken from
“Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English.
As Adjective As Noun

As Verb
 The word ‘mean’
meanings, they are:
As Adjective
1. Ungenerous; unwillingto share or
help
2. Unkind; of unpleasant behavior
which others dislike
3. (especially of abilities) poor; bad
(in the phrase “no mean something
4. Bad-tempered; liking to hurt
5. poor-looking, as of building
6. Of low social position
7. average
As Verb As Noun
1. To present ( a meaning) 1. An average amount, figure or
2. To intend (to say); to have in mind value
as or for a purpose 2.A state or way of behavior or
3. To be determined about/to act on course of action which is not too
4. To intend (to be) because of strong or weak, too much or too
abilities, fate,etc little, but in between, in the middle
5. To be a sign of position (in the phrase: ‘the golden
6. To be of importance by (a stated mean’).
amount)
7. To have to; to be supposed to (in
the phrase: ‘be meant’)
8. To intend seriously to act (in the
phrase: ‘mean business’)
9. To do/say what is intended to
help, but often does’nt (in the
phrase:’mean well’).
10. To have evil intentions (in the
phrase: mean mischief”)
11. To intend to what is best for
someone (in phrase: ‘mean well by
someone).
 QUESTION AND ANSWER
SESSION
1.How do people sometimes build different meanings from one exactly the same sentence?
( Diana Ariani)

Answer : English can be a confusing language to learn! Have you ever come across two words that
sound the same, but have different meanings? These are called homophones.Homophones are two or
more words that sound the same (identical pronunciation), but have different meanings. These words
are often spelt differently in English too (e.g. pear vs. pair). The term homophone comes from Greek
‘homo-’ (meaning: same) and ‘-phone’ (meaning: sound or voice), so the word literally means: ‘same
sound’.

2.How do we make our audience understand in concept of meaning?

( Arisna Yuliani )
Answer :
Communicating involves the translation of your thoughts and ideas to words. ... Knowing your
audience involves understanding others, and their perspectives, to see if they understand your words,
examples, or the frames of reference you use to communicate your experiences, points, and
conclusions.
3. Can you explain to us differences between sentence meaning and speaker meaning?
( Ahmad Zulkarnain )
Answer:
sentences meaning is what the meaning of “x” ( makna asal)
speaker meaning is what do you mean by saying “x” (makna tujuan)
4. give me example of Various Meanings of the word “Mean” as adjective, as verb, and as
noun?
(Fatmiyati)
Answer:
1). I don’t mean to hurt your feeling (intend, as verb)
2). Mylife will have no meaning if it is without you. (use, significance,as noun)
3). Please don’t be so mean to me. I am your friend, not your enemy. (unkind, as an
adjective)
5. what is the differences between meaning and concept?
(melisa )
Answer:
I think the significant difference between “meaning” and “concept” . Meaning is spesifaccly
something thatis part of languge functioning. A concept by contrast is merelya thought. It
doesn’t have tobe connected to language form.