Semantic and Pragmatic

Semantic and Pragmatic

1. Study sentence meaning and word meaning, no tied to context.

   • Question about current time.

2. Study utterance meaning. Utterances are expressions identified only by their contexts.

   • An answer to the question is obligatory (even if time is unknown)

3. Idioms

   • Meaning abstracted away from users
     • Non-situation specific meaning
       • Sentence meaning
         • Referential
   • Meaning in relation to speakers and hearers
     • Situation-specific meaning
       • Speaker meaning
         • Contextual

4. Language

   • Spoken form
     • Surface level analysis
       • Phonetics
         • Phonology
           • Morphology
             • Words
               • Organization
                 • Meaning
                   • Usage
                 • Sintax
                   • "What time is it?"
   • Writen form