Meaning

Meaning

1. Referring/Denoting

   • Is used for the action of a speaker in picking out entities in the world.
     • Referential approach
       • The action of putting words into relationship with the world is meaning, so that provide a semantic description for a language we need to show how the expression of the language can "hook onto" the world
     • Representational approach
       • To talk about the world depends on our mental models on it

2. Reference

   • Referent
   • Nominals
     • Is the linguistic unit which most clearly reveals the function of a language

3. Linguistic relativity