The paper refers to the ways in which the linguistically encoded information of sentence meaning provides an indication of the direct, literal messages intended by the speaker. Every sentence has a Direct Message Potential. Sentence meaning can be divided up into two separate and distinct parts. On the one hand, sentence encodes a proposition, which represents a state of the world which the speaker wishes to bring to the addressee’s attention and, on the other hand, there is everything else: Mood markers such as lexical expressions of varying length and complexity. This nonpropositional part of sentence meaning can be analyzed into different types of signals, called Pragmatic Markers. These pragmatic markers signal the speaker’s potential communicative intentions. Pragmatic markers are not part of the propositional content of the sentence. Pragmatic markers have procedural (pragmatic) meaning and specify how the sentence of which they are part is related to the preceding discourse.

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sentence, information, code, marker, meaning

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51-62

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Research Paper

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Communication Studies

Material topic:

Types of Speech and Interactionnel Mechanisms in Communication

Material UDC:

811.135.1`242

Material DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62413/lc.2009(1).07

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