SEMANTICS PART II
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SEMANTICS PART II
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SENTENCE MEANING
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DEFINITION
Sentence meaning refers to the various interpretations of sentential meaning in language.
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5 ways that a sentence expresses meaning
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Vagueness
Contradiction
Anomaly
Ambiguity
Paraphrasing
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PARAPHRASING
It has to do with the restructuring of words in a sentence without altering the overall proposition of a sentence.
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It refers to sentences that contain words with unclear, imprecise, and unspecific meaning or referents.
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It is a situation whereby a proposition at the terminating part of the sentence contradicts the earlier stated proposition.
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It refers to sentences whose meaning defy logic.
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AMBIGUITY
It refers to structures with more than one interpretation.
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LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
It is achieved by the presence of a single word in a sentence.
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STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY
It is a situation whereby a sentence attains multiple interpretations as a result how is structured.
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