2003•Journal of Huaihua UniversityRequires access
Two States of Sentence Meaning and Their Relations
Qiu Zhen-qiang
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Abstract
Leaving speech field out of consideration or not, a sentence meaning includes the theoretical state and the actual state. The sentence meaning is theoretical state while given speech field is not considered, and it includes the basic sentence meaning and additional sentence meaning. The basic sentence meaning is one of componential or the combination of componential, while entailment meaning and presupposition meaning are both hypogyny conception of the basic sentence meaning. The additional sentence meaning can express image, sensibility, type of writing and style. There is unity between the sentence meaning and the preceding three componentials of the sentence meaning. The actual statesentence meaning is practical in the social intercourse, is the result of speech field choice on theoretical state. It Includes the actual basic sentence meaning and the actual additional sentence meaning. There are four results when the theoretical sentence meaning is changed into actual one.