LING 3P94 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Syntactic Ambiguity, Pragmatics, Presupposition
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Meaning means x (soporific) is equivalent to y (tending to produce sleep) Conceptual/cognitive/descriptive meaning deals with linguistic meaning expressed in terms of other words (within language) semantics. What a word denotes in the real world. Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning in language and is concerned with the relationship between linguistic expressions and their denotations. Semantic theories must account for our knowledge to understand the following phenomena that involve relationships between words or sentences. Does not match to our knowledge of reality. Ambiguity: lexical or syntactic- one form with more than one meaning. That woman is not as stubborn as you think vs that lady is not as obstinate as you think . Synonymy: two forms with similar or same meaning. If bachelor is true, married man must be false. If married man is true, bachelor is false. Contradiction: if x is true, y must be false. He killed the man vs the man died .
