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| The study of inherent, "linguistic" meaning of words and sentences. |
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| The study of those aspects of meaning that depend on or derive from the context in which the words and sentences are used. |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is ____" (semantic content)
"What is intended" (intended but unspoken meaning; IMPLICATURE)
"What is done " (SPEECH ACT) |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is said" (________________)
"What is intended" (intended but unspoken meaning; IMPLICATURE)
"What is done " (SPEECH ACT) |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is said" (semantic content)
"What is ________" (intended but unspoken meaning; IMPLICATURE)
"What is done " (SPEECH ACT) |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is said" (semantic content)
"What is intended" (___________)
"What is done " (SPEECH ACT) |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is said" (semantic content)
"What is intended" (intended but unspoken meaning; IMPLICATURE)
"What is ____" (SPEECH ACT) |
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Three fundamental questions about the meaning of an utterance:
"What is said" (semantic content)
"What is intended" (intended but unspoken meaning; IMPLICATURE)
"What is done " (__________) |
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| The INTENDED SPEECH ACT is the intersection of the utterance's(COMMUNICATIVE/PERFORMATIVE) CONTENT and its (IMPLICATED/LITERAL) MEANING. |
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| The LITERAL SPEECH ACT is the intersection of the utterance's (COMMUNICATIVE/PERFORMATIVE) CONTENT and its (IMPLICATED/LITERAL) MEANING. |
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| The IMPLICATURE is the intersection of the utterance's (COMMUNICATIVE/PERFORMATIVE) CONTENT and its (IMPLICATED/LITERAL) MEANING. |
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| The SENTENCE MEANING is the intersection of the utterance's (COMMUNICATIVE/PERFORMATIVE) CONTENT and its (IMPLICATED/LITERAL) MEANING. |
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| The PERFORMATIVE CONTENT of an utterance intersects with its IMPLICATED MEANING to give rise to the (IMPLICATURE/INTENDED SPEECH ACT) and with its LITERAL MEANING to give rise to the (SENTENCE MEANING/LITERAL SPEECH ACT). |
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| The COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT of an utterance intersects with its IMPLICATED MEANING to give rise to the (IMPLICATURE/INTENDED SPEECH ACT) and with its LITERAL MEANING to give rise to the (SENTENCE MEANING/LITERAL SPEECH ACT). |
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| The IMPLICATED MEANING of an utterance intersects with its COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT to give rise to the (IMPLICATURE/SENTENCE MEANING) and with its PERFORMATIVE CONTENT to give rise to the (INTENDED/LITERAL SPEECH ACT). |
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| The LITERAL MEANING of an utterance intersects with its COMMUNICATIVE CONTENT to give rise to the (IMPLICATURE/SENTENCE MEANING) and with its PERFORMATIVE CONTENT to give rise to the (INTENDED/LITERAL SPEECH ACT). |
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Word meaning is usually _________ (except for onomotopoeia)
Sentence meaning is usually compositional (except for idioms)
Utterance meaning (a.k.a. "speaker meaning") is "calculable" |
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____ meaning is usually arbitrary (except for onomotopoeia)
Sentence meaning is usually compositional (except for idioms)
Utterance meaning (a.k.a. "speaker meaning") is "calculable" |
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Word meaning is usually arbitrary (except for onomotopoeia)
Sentence meaning is usually _____________ (except for idioms)
Utterance meaning (a.k.a. "speaker meaning") is "calculable" |
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Word meaning is usually arbitrary (except for onomotopoeia)
________ meaning is usually compositional (except for idioms)
Utterance meaning (a.k.a. "speaker meaning") is "calculable" |
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Word meaning is usually arbitrary (except for onomotopoeia)
Sentence meaning is usually compositional (except for idioms)
Utterance meaning (a.k.a. "speaker meaning") is "__________" |
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Word meaning is usually arbitrary (except for onomotopoeia)
Sentence meaning is usually compositional (except for idioms)
__________ meaning (a.k.a. "_______ meaning") is "calculable" |
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| Information which is linguistically encoded as being part of the common ground at the time of utterance. |
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| A figure of speech in which an imptiea comparison is made. |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. |
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| Substitution of an inoffensive term (such as "passed away") for one considered offensively explicit ("died"). |
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| A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as crown" for "royalty"). |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific. Considered by some to be a form of metonymy. |
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A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its
opposite. |
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| Statements that imply the opposite of their literal meaning. |
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