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Introduction 
 
 
This paper shall engage in a comparison between seven types of meaning created by 
Geoffrey Leech on one side and the semantic approaches regarding the topic of the 
classification of meaning in the works of Frank Palmer and John Lyons on the other side. 
To achieve its goal, the paper will be structured in two main parts with the description 
of Leech’s types of meaning in the first and the description and comparison of Palmer’s and 
Lyons’ categorizations in the second part. The two subparts will each be concluded with a 
brief summary of the chapter, and at the very end, a conclusion will follow. 
The methodology which is going to be used in order to provide a comparison will 
include a description and comparative and contrastive analysis of the topics depicted. 
The main goal of the paper is to give a clear overview of all the three approaches and 
distinguish between them when necessary. Having in mind the scope of this work and its 
limitations, one of the aims is to equip the reader with the basic knowledge of “the meaning of 
meaning” and possibly initiate a further discussion on this subject. 
Although every term will be explained in the main part of the work, it needs to be 
pointed out that the word “sense” in this paper will in most cases refer to the “dictionary 
meaning” or the pure linguistic one, unless stated otherwise. All the other terms will be 
described and explained.