Meaning (linguistics)

In linguistics, meaning is the information or concepts that a sender intends to convey, or does convey, in communication with a receiver.• Unilalianism In linguistics, meaning is the information or concepts that a sender intends to convey, or does convey, in communication with a receiver. Ambiguity means confusion about what is conveyed, since the current context may lead to different interpretations of meaning. Many words in many languages have multiple definitions. Ambiguity is an effect of a rupture of the rule of identity in the context of the exchange of information. Particularly the sender may be physically absent, and the contexts explicitly divergent, such as will be the case when the receptor is a reader and the sender was a writer. Pragmatics is the study of how context affects meaning. The two primary forms of context important to pragmatics are linguistic context and situation context.