2004•Linguistics StudyRequires access
The Theoretical State and the Actual State of Sentence Meaning
Qiu Zhen-qian
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Abstract
Leaving actual 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 refers to surface meaning of sememe or sememe combination, while entailment meaning and presupposition meaning are both hypogyny conception of the basic sentence meaning. The additional sentence meaning can include image, sensibility, type of writing and style. There is unity between the preceding three sentence meaning and their semantic component. The actual state sentence meaning is practice in the social intercourse. It is the result that actual speech field chooses theoretical state. It Includes the actual basic sentence meaning and the actual additional sentence meaning. There are four results when the theoretical sentence meaning changes into actual one.