Semantics study of MEANING in LANGUAGE

SPEAKER MEANING what a speaker means

SENTENCE MEANING what a sentence/word means
NATIVE SPEAKER primary source of information about meaning

UTTERANCE
Stretch of any talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the
part of that person.
Use by particular speaker, on particular occasion, of a piece of language
Example:
Sequence of Sentence
Single phrase
Single Word

SENTENCE
A string of words put together by GRAMMATICAL RULES of a language
expressing a complete thought.
IDEAL string of words behind various realizations in utterance and inscriptions.

PROPOSITION
The part of meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence that describe some
states of affair.
Object of thought
Utterances
Can be loud or
quiet
Can be
grammatical or
not
Can be true or
false
In a particular
regional accent
In a particular

Sentences

Proposition

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REFERENCE
Things in the world (include persons) are being talked about.
Relationship between part of language and things outside the language.
SENSE
the SENSE of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with
other expressions in the language
an intuitive concept