unit 5 semantics.pptVIP

Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. Abstract De-contextualized Dictionary meaning What does the word “dog” mean in your dictionary? An animal with four legs and a tail, often kept as a pet or trained for work, hunting or guarding buildings Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real physical world. The linguistic element real entity sense reference What the dog is doing? Which dog? This dog. A short pet dog with brown fur and dotted with white fur cliche judo typhoon tea versus Sputnik