Studying meaning

Studying meaning

1. Pragmatics distinguished from semantics

   • Utterances
     • The raw data of linguistics
       • Is unique, having been produced by a particular sender in a specific situation.
         • Can never be repeted
           • Are interpreted in the context
             • An EXPLICATURE is a basic interpretation of an utterance.
       • each one
     • are
   • Sentences
     • The abstract linguistic object on which an utterance is based.
       • Not tied to context
         • The LITERAL MEANING of a sentence is based on just semantic information.
     • is
   • Pragmatis
     • is
     • The study of utterance meaning.

2. Types of meaning

   • Sender´s meaning
     • is
     • Meaning that the speaker or writer intends to convey by teams of an utterance.
       • Denotation
         • Of an expression is whatever it denotes.
       • Senses
         • Which are semantic relationship between the senses of expressions.
       • Reference
         • What speakers do when they use expressions to pick out for their audience.

3. semantics

   • is
   • The study of word meaning and sentence meaning.
     • Prepositions
       • The term for a kind of core sentence meaning.
       • is
     • Entailment
       • is
       • A centrally important type of inference in semantics.