Albatool Sawan

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347 semantics course
unit 2 mind map !
Sentences, utterances,
and propositions

Proposition
Utterance
SENTENCE

Some features of propositions:

UTTERANCE; TAKEN FROM THE VERB
UTTER CAN BE MODIFIED BY SILENCE,
USE, OR PHYSICAL EVENT. ITS AN
INCOMPLETE act of speech ONE
SAYS BEFORE OR AFTER SILENCE, or,
it’s the use of a piece of an
existing language by a
particular person , whether it’s
a word or a sequence of
sentence depending on silence.
Utterance would also be
defined as the physical event on
a specific time.
Utterances have features such as :
it can only be said once
phonic features :( loud/quite ..)
tied to a participant:(
speaker/hearer..)
can be grammatical or
ungrammatical, meaningful or
meaningless, but must be In a
language.
unlimited, and one sentence can be
realized in many utterances.
deals with spoken accents; that’s
why it’s not applied on sentences.
It is the ideal grammatically
completed string of words
that belong to a particular
language and are taken from
and realized mentally but NOT
physically.
note that: quotation usually
indicates utterance while
italics indicate sentences.
the essential core
one proposition can be
meaning of a expressed in many
sentence regardless sentences.
of the language proposition determines the
correctness of both
being used, and if it’s
utterance and sentence.
grammatically
if one sentence of two is
correct or not. false then they are
its a statement that expressing different
describes states of propositions.
but, if they happen to be
relations.
both true, then they have
the same propositions.