| 单词 | descriptive meaning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdescriptive meaning c. Philosophy and Linguistics. Designating that aspect of the meaning of an utterance which relates purely to the presentation of facts, rather than to the expression of attitudes, the effecting of an action, etc.; esp. in descriptive meaning. Also: of or relating to such meaning; (of a word or utterance) having (only) such meaning. Cf. emotive adj. 3, prescriptive adj. 1c, performative adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [adjective] > having specific meaning sensed1577 descriptive1944 1944 C. L. Stevenson Ethics & Lang. ix. 210 In any ‘persuasive definition’ the term defined is a familiar one, whose meaning is both descriptive and strongly emotive. 1963 R. M. Hare in Proc. Brit. Acad. 49 116 The fundamental distinction is not that between descriptive and evaluative terms, but that between the descriptive and evaluative meaning which a single term may have in a certain context. 1981 J. Lyons Lang. & Linguistics v. 148 Lexemes can be said to be completely synonymous..if and only if they have the same descriptive, expressive and social meaning. 1999 M. Timmons Morality without Found. iv. 154 Moral sentences lack descriptive content. 2001 I. Fónagy Langs. within Lang. vii. 197 Hello has a conative function, signalling the presence of the speaker and his intention to contact the hearer, but no descriptive meaning. < as lemmas |
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