The importance of Semantics and Pragmatics in the study and learning of languages

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1. Understanding of the world and expressions

1.1. Denotation

1.1.1. Big class of things

1.1.1.1. Channel

1.1.1.1.1. Television

1.1.1.1.2. Water

1.1.1.1.3. Communicating

1.1.1.1.4. Ideas

1.2. Ostention

1.2.1. It is the act of pointing at the denotation or part of the denotation of a word

1.3. Sense

1.3.1. It refers to all

1.3.1.1. Person

1.3.1.2. Objects

1.3.1.3. Places

1.3.2. Castle

1.4. Reference

1.4.1. It refers to an specific

1.4.1.1. Person

1.4.1.2. Object

1.4.1.3. Place

1.4.2. What castle?

1.5. Referent

1.5.1. It is the particular object in the real world

1.5.2. Emily and her friends

1.6. Deictic expressions

1.6.1. phrases

1.6.2. words

1.6.3. features of grammar

1.6.4. Interpretation in relation to the situation in which they are uttered

1.7. Deixis

1.7.1. It coordinates of the situation of utterance

1.7.2. Time

1.7.3. Participants

1.7.4. Discourse itself

1.7.5. Place

2. Expression

2.1. "I am tired"

2.1.1. Linguistic

2.1.1.1. Semantic

2.1.1.1.1. Sentence/word meaning

2.1.1.2. Pragmatic

2.1.1.2.1. Utterance meaning

3. "The castle was burned because of the war"

4. “We constructed a Rube Goldberg Machine”

5. “The conference is set up to the next month”.

6. Knowledge

6.1. Dictionary/Book

6.1.1. Literal meaning

6.2. Environment

6.2.1. Context meaning

7. English Language