"idiolects" - 1 õppematerjal

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himself thinks of metaphor as a species of what he called "conversational implicature." Now for a sketch of Grice's reduction of sentence meaning to speaker- meaning, and indications of how he would have approached objections 1­4 had he been fully aware of them.9 He first concentrates on the narrow notion of sentence meaning for a particular individual, that is the meaning that the sentence has in that individual's personal, distinctive speech or idiolect. (No two English speak- ers' idiolects are exactly alike.) And he restricts his initial target further, distinguishing structured utterances from unstructured ones. A structured utterance has meaningful parts, such as individual words, which contribute to the utterance's overall meaning; any declarative English sentence is an example of this, since it contains words that are individually meaningful and it means what it does in virtue of those words meaning what they do. An