LING 15 Lecture 13: Ling 15
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Pragmatic meaning: what"s implied when you say something. Cultural meaning isn"t necessarily implied (though it can be). Things can just have different meanings in different cultures; how peace sign means. "peace" in america, but is actually an insult in britain (if you turn it around)- cultural meaning. It"s cold in here to get someone to close the window. Participants are literally just who/whatever are participating in the action of the verb. Regardless of their position in the sentence, or the form they take. When we say a language is svo or sov, we"re talking about the order of the participants in relation to the verb. Subject participant has a -us ending, while the object participant has a. Remoteness: talking about something that"s far away in space, or time. Grammaticization: a content word becomes a grammatical word, like how will in english was originally a verb meaning "want", and then became the future tense marker.
