Chapter 7: Semantics

7.14 Summary


In this chapter, we explored different kinds of linguistic meaning: entailments vs. implicature, sense vs. denotation, lexical vs. sentential meaning, compositional vs. non-compositional meaning. The take away is that “what does this mean?” is a complicated question: there are many layers to linguistic meaning, each providing important insight into how we produce and understand meaning as language users.

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