distinguish sentence meaning between utterance meaning

1. DISTINGUISH SENTENCE
MEANING FROM
UTTERANCE MEANING
Pham Thi Thanh Xuan-20701134.
SEMANTICS

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Sentence and Utterance.
2. Sentence Meaning and Utterance
Meaning.
3. Distinguish Sentence Meaning and
from Utterance Meaning.
4. Exercise.

3. 1. SENTENCE AND
UTTERANCE .

4. Example: The dog is running.
A sentence is a grammatically
complete string of word expressing a
complete thought.
1.1.Sentence

5. Example:
“Umm, what I …. No, don’t mind.”
“Hello”
An utterance is any stretch of TALK. That is, an
utterance is the USE or realization of a piece of language
by a particular speaker in a particular context.
• In other word, when a speaker USES a sentence in a
particular context, he produces an utterance.
1.2.Utterance

6. 2. SENTENCE MEANING AND
UTTERANCE MEANING.

7. 2.1.Sentence meaning
• Sentence meaning ( the literal meaning of
sentence): the semantic content of the
sentence, the literal meaning of a sentence
derivable from the sense of its words,
regardless of context. ( also means Word
meaning)
• It is what the sentence means irrespective to
the context or situation in which it is used.

8. EXAMPLE
1. “ I’m cold “.
The semantic ( literal) meaning of this
utterance is that the speaker is cold.
2. How brave you are!
Literally means that the addressee is
courageous.

9. 2.2 Utterance Meaning
• Utterance Meaning: refers the semantic
content in addition to any pragmatic
meaning created by the specific way in
which the sentence gets used.
• Utterance meaning is also referred to as ‘
Speaker meaning’ or ‘intended meaning’.

10. 1. “I’m cold”
The speaker meaning of this utterance could be: close
the window, bring me a blanket, or ‘ let’s go home’ if
uttered at the beach.
2. How brave you are!
Taking into account the context in which it is produced,
the fact that it is uttered ironically, the speaker’s utterance
will be interpreted as meaning something radically
different from the literal decontextualized meaning. The
utterance meaning is The listener is coward.
EXAMPLE

11. 3. Distinguish

12. Now decide whether the following could represent utterances. Indicate your
answer by circling Yes or No
(1) "Hello" Yes/No
(2) "Not much" Yes / No
(3) "Utterances may consist of a single word. a single phrase or a single sentence.
They may also consist of a sequence of sentences; it is not unusual to find
utterances that consist of one or more grammatically incomplete sentence-
fragments. In short, there is no simple relation of correspondence between
utterances and sentences". Yes/ No
4) "Pxgotmgt" Yes/ No
(5) "Schplotzenpnaaaaaaarghi" Yes/ No
4. Exercise

13. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR
ATTENTION!