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Semantics and Pragmatics Dictionary

The document defines key terms related to semantics and pragmatics. It provides definitions for concepts like connotation, denotation, dialect, discourse, intension, interpretation, level, philology, meaning, politeness, pragmatics, referent, sarcasm, semantics, sense, sentence, signification, text, and word. The document serves as a dictionary of sorts for understanding important linguistic concepts.

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Semantics and Pragmatics Dictionary

The document defines key terms related to semantics and pragmatics. It provides definitions for concepts like connotation, denotation, dialect, discourse, intension, interpretation, level, philology, meaning, politeness, pragmatics, referent, sarcasm, semantics, sense, sentence, signification, text, and word. The document serves as a dictionary of sorts for understanding important linguistic concepts.

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Camilo Andres Pieros Ovalle Semantics and Pragmatics 051350262010

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS


DICTIONARY

Connotation: A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or


literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

Definition: A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol. Denotation: The primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word, phrase or symbol. Dialect: functional language. Discourse: Speech given by the speaker in the social practice. Intension: Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances
in the real world to which the term applies.

Interpretation: The assigning of meaning to a linguistic chain. Level: Degree of complexity. Philology: Discipline concerned with the establishment and study of texts at all levels of analysis ; it is the
foundation of linguistics.

Meaning: The definition or connotation of a word. Politeness: Correct manner of communication, written or spoken. Pragmatics: Study of the utterances and their contexts. Referent: The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes. Sarcasm: Softly way to attack a statement. Semantics: A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. Sense: A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. Sentence: Syntactic structure of an utterance. Signification: Signified of a linguistic unit defined by abstracting context and communicational situation. Text: autonomous linguistic chain (oral or written) that constitutes an empirical unit Word: completely integrated grouping of morphemes.

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