Differences Between Sentences and Utterance

Differences between sentence meaning and utterance meaning

A sentence is a group of words ,usually containing a verb, which expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter when written. The definition indicates that a sentence is a grammatical concept, and the meaning of a sentence often studied as the abstract, intrinsic property of the sentence itself in terms of predication. [1] A utterance is something that someone says or the expression of your ideas or feelings in spoken words. So if we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes an utterance, and it should be considered in the situation in which it is actually uttered (or used).[2] Therefore, we can't tell whether 'Let it go' is a sentence or an utterance. It is up to how you define it. If we take it as a grammatical unit and consider it as self-contained unit in isolation from context, then we regarding it as a sentence. If we take it as something a speaker utters in a certain situation with a certain purpose, we taking it to be an utterance. [3]

Therefore, while the meaning of a sentence is abstract, and decontextualized , that of an utterance concrete , and context-dependent. [4] The meaning of an utterance is based on sentence meaning: it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a text.[5] Let's set an example with the sentence' Tom loves Mary'. Semantic analysis of meaning of sentence may just indicates a relationship between the boy named Tom and the girl named Mary. Then a pragmatic analysis of the utterance will reveal what the speaker intends to do with it. [6] The utterance meaning of sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered.[7] For example, it could have been uttered by a speaker to warn that whom Tom love is Mary, but not the hearer. It also could have been a declaration of the speaker'...