A. INTRODUCTION
Semantics is a study of the meaning of lexical items and
other parts of language. According to Godfrey Leech, there are seven types of
meaning in Semantics; conceptual, connotative, stylistic, affective, reflected,
collocative and thematic meaning (1981). This paper focuses on only two of the
types of meaning: conceptual meaning and connotative meaning. The lexical items
chosen for the study are /Life/,/Was/, /Much/, /Easier/, /When/, /Apple/,
/and/, /Blackbery/, /Were/, /Just/, and /Fruits/. These words seem so
interesting and unique to be elaborated as follows:
B. CONCEPTUAL MEANING
Conceptual meaning means logical, cognitive, or denotative
content (Nida, 1975:25). It is based on two structural principles, which are
contrastiveness and constituent structures. It is usually derived from
definitions we find in dictionaries and the appearance of these lexical items.
We give these lexical items features (constituent structures) and eliminate
other features which are not present (contrastiveness structures).
