![]() ![]() Jakarta: Rineka Cipta Djajasudarma, Fatimah. ![]() International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, 4.īloomfield. Leech’s seven types of meaning in semantics. A novelty that this present study found is that the seven types of meaning have variations in their descriptions. ![]() The result of this research confirmed that there are seven types of meaning based on Leech’s theory, namely conceptual, connotative, collocative, reflective, affective, social, and thematic. This present study uses a qualitative approach focusing on the words, phrases, and sentences regarding the theory. The research aims to classify and to identify seven types of meanings, and also to analyze Leech’s book and three article reviews of his theory. The problems this present study focused on are the seven types of meaning and their descriptions in the book of Semantics by Geoffrey Leech: 1981. This present study argues that the meaning of a word in language can be known with the foundation of semantic science. In contrast, linguistics is the study of oral and written communications that have systematic, rational, empirical characteristics as a description of the structure and rules of language. Semantics is a branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words in languages. Meaning is the field of the study discussed in semantic science. ![]()
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