A sentence is a string of words put together by the grammatical of rules of a language expressing a complete thought. It is neither physical event nor a physical object. For example, I am a student.
An Utterance is any sound of talk, that human produce. The characteristics of utterance are:
•It is spoken
•Physical event
•May be grammatical or not (REMEMBER, utterances do not focus on the grammatical aspect)
•Meaningful or meaningless
•By specific person (in particular accent)
•By specific time or on particular occasion
•A piece of language (a single phrase or even a single word)
To differentiate utterance and sentence, we usually use quotation mark (“….“) in written form of utterance. For example, a piece of utterance that is spoken by certain person “I’m a student”.
A Proposition is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs. Besides declarative sentence, proposition also clearly involved in the meaning of interrogatives and imperative sentences. For example, “Get out of here this minute!”, “I’m afraid that I’ll have to ask you to leave.” In these two sentences, the speaker asserted proposition.
We can entertain preposition in the mind regardless whether they are true or false, by thinking them or believing them, but only true proposition can be known.
To make clear the differences between utterance, sentence, and proposition, look at this chart below!
Sentences utterances and proposition. (2005-2009) noncompositional. Recovered by http://noncompositional.com/2005/09/sentences-utterances-propositions/
An Utterance is any sound of talk, that human produce. The characteristics of utterance are:
•It is spoken
•Physical event
•May be grammatical or not (REMEMBER, utterances do not focus on the grammatical aspect)
•Meaningful or meaningless
•By specific person (in particular accent)
•By specific time or on particular occasion
•A piece of language (a single phrase or even a single word)
To differentiate utterance and sentence, we usually use quotation mark (“….“) in written form of utterance. For example, a piece of utterance that is spoken by certain person “I’m a student”.
A Proposition is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs. Besides declarative sentence, proposition also clearly involved in the meaning of interrogatives and imperative sentences. For example, “Get out of here this minute!”, “I’m afraid that I’ll have to ask you to leave.” In these two sentences, the speaker asserted proposition.
We can entertain preposition in the mind regardless whether they are true or false, by thinking them or believing them, but only true proposition can be known.
To make clear the differences between utterance, sentence, and proposition, look at this chart below!
Sentences utterances and proposition. (2005-2009) noncompositional. Recovered by http://noncompositional.com/2005/09/sentences-utterances-propositions/