Study of Language 
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Pragmatics(studies context)
**Semantics (studies linguistic meaning)
contributers
Philosophers (study the sentences' meaning)
Linguists (study the words' sense)
They use
Lexical decomposition
Semantic features
Lexical ambiguity
Synonymy
Hyponymy
Overlap
Antonymy
characterizes the words' sense
units of word meaning
ambiguous meaning of words
same meaning in different words
A word's specific meaning that implies another word
words that have some of the same semantic features
contrary meaning of two words
Study of truth
Study of reference
Stereotype
Coreference
Prototype
Anaphora
Extension
Deixis
Referent
Synthetic sentences
Entailment
Contradictory sentences
Presupposition
Analytic sentences
the thing that a word or phrase refers to
things to which an expression may refer
a typical member of an extension
characteristics of a prototype
two expressions that refer the same thing
an expression that refers to another
a one-meaning expression that can refer to different things
they are true by their words
they are false by their words
they may be true or false
proposition that necessarily follows from another sentence
proposition assumed to be true in order to judge the truth of another sentence
Syntax (studies phrases, clauses, and sentences)
Constituent structure
X-Bar syntax
Left-to-right ordering
Transformations
Categories
Classify words
Determiner
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
Noun
Among others...
Establishes the structures' order
Phrase structure (PS) rules
specifies
The ordering
The optional elements
The allowed elements
Tree diagram
Hierarchical structure of utterances
Structures phrases
Structural unit
Phrasal category
Lexical category
Moves categories' locations
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Context
Implicature
Speech Acts
locutionary
Expressed/Implied locutionary acts
expressed
the purpose is expressed
implied
the purpose should be guessed
literal/nonliteral locutionary acts
nonliteral
the meaning is not verbatim
literal
the meaning is verbatim
Illocutionary
Expressive
Expresses emotion
Commissive
Commit to do something
Declaration
Changes the status of someone or something
Question
Get information
Directive
Get the hearer to do something
Representative
Felicity conditions
contextual appropriateness
Explicit/Nonexplicit Illocutionary acts
Explicit
verbs that reveal the purpose
Nonexplicit
verbs that are not explicit
Direct/Indirect ilocutionary acts
direct
Doesnt need an external structure
Indirect
It uses an external structure to give the message