| This page is part of the ongoing |
| Encyclopaedic Meaning project |
| Ideas from cognitive grammar |
| Base |
| Domain |
| Immediate scope |
| Profile |
| Scope of predication |
| Connotation |
| Denotation |
| Dictionary meaning |
| Encyclopaedic meaning |
| Frame semantics |
| Frame evocation |
| Framing |
| Highlighting |
| Semantic frame |
| Mental space theory |
| Structural semantics |
| Windowing of attention |
Dictionary meaning is the "direct" referential meaning of a sign, and is much the same as the meanings one finds in a dictionary. Thus, there is a certain correspondence between this notion and the notion of denotation.
Bibliography[]
- Haiman, John (1980). "Dictionaries and encyclopaedias". Lingua, 50. 377-88.