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It has been said that certain actions are intrinsically endowed with a communicative meaning (see below for a definition). Would you say that is true and can apply to certain sentences, utterances and expressions?
Definition (in the linguistic sense of the word): communicative meaning, i.e. the meaning of an utterance as a linguistic activity: e.g. requesting, ordering, asserting etc..
Do you mean that they are endowed with a single communicative meaning? ;-)
Stay away from decaf! ;-) I would say yes and that it is part of learning a language not vocabulary and grammar.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdol
No, no. They may have several meanings.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdol
I'd agree with this- am I missing something behind your question? What do you have in mind?