Foundations of Meaning

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context

refers to features of the dynamic setting in which a linguistic unit is used and which somehow determines its interpretation

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meaning

information conveyed through actions/speech

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Pragmatics

the study of the use of language to express meaning

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Principle of compositionality

the meaning of a linguistic unit comes from the meaning of its parts and the way they're put together

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Utterance

a piece of spoken/writted language produced in a particular utterance context (concrete)