Ąpproaches to word meanina;
1) referential (onomasiological) - itstudies various names which nominated extralinguistic objects. The central conception within this approach is the theory of nomination.
It shows how referent (object of reality ) is named in a certain language: man - hero - winner - fellow - superman - partner
2) functional - studies syntagmatic (within context) and paradigmatic
relation;
3) extralinguistic - which studies the influence of the objective reality on the
language
4) semantic - shows the semantic structure of a word (all meanings taken
together): lion - animal, proper name, emblem of the British flag.