PRAGMATICS. BASIC NOTIONS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Semantics and pragmatics are both concerned with the study of meaning; we have to distinguish between speaker meaning and sentence meaning.
Speaker meaning: is what a speaker means (intends to convey) when he uses a piece of language.
Sentence meaning: (or word meaning) is what a sentence (or word) means.
There is often a divergence between the meaning of the linguistic expression a speaker uses and the meaning he intends to communicate by using it. What hearers are interested in is what the speaker means, and that leads him to ignore the fact that the speaker's words mean something else.
Bourget, david. (2013) philpapaers.speaker meaning and semantics meaning Recovered by http://philpapers.org/browse/speaker-meaning-and-semantic-meaning
Semantics and pragmatics are both concerned with the study of meaning; we have to distinguish between speaker meaning and sentence meaning.
Speaker meaning: is what a speaker means (intends to convey) when he uses a piece of language.
Sentence meaning: (or word meaning) is what a sentence (or word) means.
There is often a divergence between the meaning of the linguistic expression a speaker uses and the meaning he intends to communicate by using it. What hearers are interested in is what the speaker means, and that leads him to ignore the fact that the speaker's words mean something else.
Bourget, david. (2013) philpapaers.speaker meaning and semantics meaning Recovered by http://philpapers.org/browse/speaker-meaning-and-semantic-meaning