Studying meaning

Studying meaning

1. Pregmatics: is the study of utternace meaning.

2. Denote: connections between meaningful items of language and aspects of the world.

3. Expression: is any meaningful language unit or sequence of meaningful units.

4. Addressee: such as a reader or a listener.

5. Sender: The writer or speaker.

6. Utterances: are the raw data of linguistics, each utterance is unique by a particular sender in a specific situation.

7. Sentence: the abstract linguistic object on which an utterance.

8. Literal meaning: of a sentence is based on just the semantic information that you have from your knowledge of English.

9. Explicature: is a basic interpretation of an utterance using contextual information and world knowledge to work out.

10. Senders meaning: is the meaning that the speakers or writer intends to convey by means of an untterance.

11. Utterance meaning: is anecesary fiction that linguists doing sematics pragmantics have to wirk with.

12. Denotation: of an expression is whatever it denotes.

13. Ostension: process of live demonstration and pointing.

14. Formal semantics: the most rigorous varieties of semantics because they use systems of formal logic to set out descriptions of meaning and theories of how the meanings of different sorts of expresssions are constructed.

15. Sense: those aspects of the meaning of an expression that give it the denotation it has.

16. Sense relations: which are semantic relationships between the senses of expressions.

17. Reference: is what speaker or writers do when they use expressions to pick out for their audience particular people.

18. Referents: the relevant entities outside of language .

19. Deictic: expressions are words, phrases and features of grammar that have ti be interpreted in relation to the situation in which they are uttered.

20. Semantics: the study of word meaning and sentence meaning, abstracted away from contexts of use.

21. Propostion: is the term for a kind of core sentence meaning, the abstract idea that remains the same in cases.

22. Statements: utterances that explicitly convey factual information.

23. Morphemes: the meaningful parts of a sentence are clauses, phrases and word.:

24. Idiom: cannot be worked out from knowledge of the manings of its parts and the way the have been put togegther.

25. Entailment: is a centrally important type of inference in semantics.