REFERENCE, REFERENT AND DENOTATION

REFERENCE, REFERENT AND DENOTATION

1. REFERENCE

   • as an act in which a speaker or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener or reader to indentify something.
     • is not based on objectively correct (versus incorrect) naming but on some logically successful (versus unsuccessful) choice of expression.
       • “Mister Aftershave is late today,. From example that successful reference is necessarily collaborate with both the speaker and the listener having a role thinking about what the other has in mind.