Types of word meaning. Denotational and connotational components of lexical meaning

Types of word meaning
The lexical meaning
The grammatical meaning
The part-of-speech
(lexico-grammatical) meaning

The lexical meaning of the word is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions.
The word-forms do, does, did, doing, done possess different grammatical meanings of tense, person, number, but in each form they have one and the same semantic component denoting “the process of movement”.

The Russian word сведения isn’t semantically identical with the English equivalent information because unlike the Russian the word сведения the English word doesn’t possess the grammatical meaning of plurality which is part of the semantic structure of the Russian word.
For ex.: verb to be the grammatical meaning of a linking element prevails: She is a student

The grammatical meaning is defined as an expression in speech of relationship between words.
For ex.: the tense meaning in the word-forms of verbs: took, asked, ran; the case meaning in the word-forms of various nouns: cat’s, girl’s, night’s; the meaning of plurality which is found in the word-forms of nouns: tables, pens, beds.

The essence of the part-of-speech meaning of a word is revealed in the classification of lexical items into major word-classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and minor word-classes (articles, prepositions, conjunctions etc.)
For ex.: table, love, sugar
For ex.: the grammatical meaning of number – pen-pens and dog-dog’s
For ex.: to drop in, to get in; on the table, in the kitchen

Components of lexical meaning
The denotational aspect;
The connotational aspect;
The pragmatic aspect.

The denotational aspect of lexical meaning is the part of lexical meaning which establishes correlation between the name and the object, phenomenon, process or characteristic feature of concrete reality, which is denoted by the given word. The denotational aspect of lexical meaning expresses the notional content of a word.
For ex.: album is a book in which people can collect photographs, stamps or autographs

The connotational aspect of a lexical meaning is the part of meaning which reflects the attitude of the speaker towards what he speaks about. Connotation conveys additional information in the process of communication.

Connotation includes
The emotive charge
For ex.: mummy - mother
Evaluation
For ex.: clique - group
Intensity (expressiveness)
For ex.: adore –to love
Imagery
For ex.: to wade – to wade through a book

The pragmatic aspect of lexical meaning is the part of meaning, that conveys information on the situation of communication