Sentence meaning vs utterance meaning.pptx

distinguish sentence meaning between utterance meaning

1. DISTINGUISH SENTENCE MEANING FROM UTTERANCE MEANING Pham Thi Thanh Xuan-20701134. SEMANTICS

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Sentence and Utterance. Sentence M eaning and Utterance Meaning . Distinguish S entence M eaning and from Utterance M eaning. Exercise.

3. 1. SENTENCE AND UTTERANCE .

4. Example: The dog is running. A sentence is a grammatically complete string of word expressing a complete thought. 1.1.Sentence

5. Example: “Umm, what I …. No, don’t mind.” “Hello” An utterance is any stretch of TALK. That is, an utterance is the USE or realization of a piece of language by a particular speaker in a particular context. In other word, when a speaker USES a sentence in a particular context, he produces an utterance . 1.2.Utterance

6. 2. SENTENCE MEANING AND UTTERANCE MEANING.

7. 2.1.Sentence meaning Sentence meaning ( the literal meaning of sentence): the semantic content of the sentence, the literal meaning of a sentence derivable from the sense of its words , regardless of context . ( also means Word meaning) It is what the sentence means irrespective to the context or situation in which it is used.

8. EXAMPLE 1. “ I’m cold “. The semantic ( literal) meaning of this utterance is that the speaker is cold. 2. How brave you are! Literally means that the addressee is courageous.

9. 2.2 Utterance Meaning Utterance Meaning: refers the semantic content in addition to any pragmatic meaning created by the specific way in which the sentence gets used. Utterance meaning is also referred to as ‘ Speaker meaning’ or ‘ intended meaning’ .

10. 1. “I’m cold” The speaker meaning of this utterance could be: close the window, bring me a blanket, or ‘ let’s go home’ if uttered at the beach. 2. How brave you are! Taking into account the context in which it is produced, the fact that it is uttered ironically , the speaker’s utterance will be interpreted as meaning something radically different from the literal decontextualized meaning. The utterance meaning is The listener is coward . EXAMPLE

11. 3. Distinguish

12. Now decide whether the following could represent utterances. Indicate your answer by circling Yes or No (1) "Hello" Yes/No (2) "Not much" Yes / No (3) "Utterances may consist of a single word. a single phrase or a single sentence. They may also consist of a sequence of sentences; it is not unusual to find utterances that consist of one or more grammatically incomplete sentence-fragments. In short, there is no simple relation of correspondence between utterances and sentences". Yes/ No 4) " Pxgotmgt " Yes/ No (5) " Schplotzenpnaaaaaaarghi " Yes/ No 4. Exercise

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