( ) “There’s a motorcycle coming" is seen as, out of context, a statement that a motorcycle is coming. But in a particular context, it might be a warning to a pedestrian not to step onto a road. When the study of meaning is considered in the context of use, it becomes a branch of linguistics called pragmatics.

What are the differences between sentence meaning and utterance meaning? And give examples to illustrate them.

What is the distinction between langue and parole? Why did Saussure make such a distinction?

the nativist view of language acquisition

speech variety

linguistic relativism

declarations

epenthesis

componential analysis

morpheme

voicing