Meaning Carrier

A Meaning Carrier is a Referencer created by an Agent that is in a Meaning Relation with a Referent.

• AKA: Semantic Unit, Meaning Bearer.
• Context:
  • It can communicate a Concept to another Agent.
  • It can range from being
    • an Extra-Linguistic Meaning Carrier (that communicates concept outside of a language, e.g. a content word).
    • to being an Intra-Linguistic Meaning Carrier (that communicates concept within a language, e.g. a grammatical word).
  • ...
• Examples:
  • Category Name, such as:
    • Content Word with lexical meaning.
    • Morpheme for word formation.
  • Another Category, such as:
    • Sentence in communication.
    • Phrase with syntactic structure.
  • ...
• Counter-Examples:
  • Contrasting Concept, which differs by lacking a referential function.
  • Alternative Approach, which uses non-referential expressions.
• See: Meaning, Referring Expression, Semantic Meaning, Natural Language Word.

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