Abstract

<p>The article investigates the scopes of word semantics. Firstly, the author gives general information about the term concept. The author investigates the thoughts of linguists about the concepts in different languages. For instance, A.Abdullayev writes: “Concepts are inside representatives of the aspects, fragments of the environment in a human’s psychology. We can say they are inside us” (Abdullayev, 2011). N. Chomiski writes: “The concepts that are created in the human’s minds define the form and the meaning of a great number of sentences, and it means that our knowledge and opinions are endless” (Bickerton, 2010). The author underlines the fact that concepts belong to human conscious, and they purely have typically mind characters.Investigating the article we observe that the author stands on the meanings of the wordsespecially on the meanings of the words denoting life and death. Saying literally, a man can be considred to be a walking dictionary created by God. Each of the individuals has its own word stock in its mind. There exist a lot of words with various meanings, and the article deals with the meanings of the words denoting death and life. The author gives their translations both in the English language and in the Azerbaijani language, and it helps us to catch the similar and different meanings that they form inside the contexts. The author comes to the conclusion that the meanings that the people want to express and the meaning that the words express are different. The article gives the list of the meanings of the words suggested by J. Lyons.</p>

Highlights

  • The concepts are the parts of the knowledge that are used and activated, defended during the activities of speech acts and mind totally

  • Chomiski writes: “The concepts that are created in the human’s minds define the form and the meaning of a great number of sentences, and it means that our knowledge and opinions are endless” (Bickerton, 2010)

  • The author underlines the fact that concepts belong to human conscious, and they purely have typically mind characters.Investigating the article we observe that the author stands on the meanings of the wordsespecially on the meanings of the words denoting life and death

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Summary

Introduction

The concepts are the parts of the knowledge that are used and activated, defended during the activities of speech acts and mind totally. It does not show that the people who speak in different cultural languages create the explanation, or the description of the same things and actions in the same way either He states that the creation of various concepts in different languages are related in the human’s experience of the language, and its usage. N.Chomski claims that before a person communicates the recursion process begins in his brain, and before the recursion process the concept has already been created in his mind (Bickerton, 2010). As the dictionaries are full of complied words and their explanations, the brains of humans that was created by God are rich in words and the meanings of them that they stored depending on their former knowledges. Exactly the usage of natural languages are observed by which cutural kinds, or differences are always in the air and linguists often think about these problems

Scope of the Study
Theories about the Menings of Words
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