Do you mean that they are endowed with a single communicative meaning?
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#1 27-Jul-2005, 11:38
Communicative meaning
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..
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#2 28-Jul-2005, 10:52Re: Communicative meaning
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#3 29-Jul-2005, 12:42Re: Communicative meaning
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Originally Posted by tdol
Do you mean that they are endowed with a single communicative meaning? I would say yes and that it is part of learning a language not vocabulary and grammar.
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M56Guest#4 29-Jul-2005, 23:02
Re: Communicative meaning
No, no. They may have several meanings. Originally Posted by tdol
Do you mean that they are endowed with a single communicative meaning?
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#5 30-Jul-2005, 12:36Re: Communicative meaning
I'd agree with this- am I missing something behind your question? What do you have in mind?
