LING 3P94 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Hyponymy And Hypernymy, Pragmatics, Presupposition
28 Feb 2016
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What does meaning mean: intentions (pragmatics- intentional/speaker meaning, indicating (indexical meaning- pragmatics- real world) That red flag means danger: description/conceptual meaning (semantics- express in terms of other words) Intension- the inherent sense of the word/phrase (definition) Leader of the majority party in canada (more stable) Extension- the set of entities that a word picks out in the real world (referents) Palmer: a word has meaning by having sense and reference. Parker: 3 areas of semantic studies: linguists- sense (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, ambiguity, anomaly, philosophers: reference (coreference, anaphora, deixis, intralinguistic, extralinguistic, philosophers: truth (contradiction, paraphrase, entailment, presupposition) A string of words ordered by grammatical rules of language. Abstract form with conceptual meaning regardless of speaker and context. Spoken by a specific speaker at a specific time. The morning star is the evening star (said at different times or by different speakers would be a different utterance) sentence meaning. Mary was given a book by john.
