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Linguistics

Meaning of a word

by 앎의나무 2007. 8. 1.

Meaning of a word is not what dictionaries describe.

Even ifawell-known scholardefinedthe word's meaning, it cannot be so.

Meaning of the word emerges exactlyat the moment someone uses it.

Please do not make a meaning tobehad by a word.

At that monent, the wordcome to die in you.

As Wiettgenstein said, Language is Use.

As Bybee said, Linguistic stucture isa emergent result.

As Keller said, meaning of a linguistic form is what that speechaims at.

As Speech Act theory revealed, meaning of a speech is whatthat speech serves for

P.S.

And so a person does.