CHAPTER 3 SENSE vs REFERENCE PPTX .pptx

SEMANTICS IN ENGLISH

1. CHAPTER 3: SENSE AND REFERENCE

2. SENSE is different from reference in that sense does not take care of objects in the real world. SENSE deals with the relationship inside the language.

3. Consider this extract from Wiktionary’s entry on plane: 1. An airplane; an aeroplane 2. A level or flat surface None of these are related to actual aeroplanes or flat surfaces in the real world. They are senses . The sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expression.

4. Example: A chair (reference) A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. (Sense) Referring is the act of picking out or identifying with words.

5. SENSE is the more interesting part of meaning. It refers to how we see an object or the amount of information given about an object. The SENSE of a part of a language (words/expression) is its place in a system of semantic relationship with other expression in a language. Sense is something which doesn’t have a physical existence.

6. SENSE deals with intra-linguistic relationships “semantic relationships” — One of the semantic relationship is “ sameness of meaning in words, phrases or sentences ” more than one word can have the same sense. RULE: Every expression that has meaning has sense, but NOT every expression that has reference.