LING 3P94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Implicature
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1. 1 meanings of meaning (1) a. mary means well (2) b. i mean no harm intentions (2) a. Summary: (i): intentional/speaker meaning (intentionality) deals with intentionality (cid:224) pragmatics (speech acts) (ii) indexical meaning deals with indexicality (cid:224) pragmatics (indices) (iii) conceptual/cognitive/descriptive meaning: expressed in terms of others words that describes something ; linguistics meaning expressed in terms of other words (cid:224) semnatics. 1. 2 domain of semantics: any theory of semantics must account for our knowledge to understand the following relationships between words or their meanings, discover, identify and characterize our knowledge of language meaning, under generate; things we know, but it can"t capture it (4)**green ideas sleep furiously ( anomaly: incongruous combination of words, they don"t go together, the syntax is correct, however the meanings is anonymous (5) a. john was looking for the glasses (ambiguity: lexical or syntactic one form with more than one meaning , ambiguity; lexical b.
