Meaning in Language

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What is propositional meaning?

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Propositional meaning arises from the relation between a word or utterance and what it refers to or describes in a real or imaginary world.

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How can expressive meaning be judged?

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Expressive meaning cannot be judged as true or false because it relates to the speaker’s feelings or attitude rather than to what words and utterances refer to.

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What is presupposed meaning?

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Presupposed meaning arises from co-occurrence restrictions, which are restrictions on what other words or expressions we expect to see before or after a particular lexical unit.

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What is evoked meaning?

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Evoked meaning arises from dialect and register variation.