classified of meaning

    Meaning can be classified in two types of classifications, they are:

A.    Based in the units of language that can carry meaning.

1)      Word meaning (meaning carried by a word)

   Example: Human means people or person

2)      Sentence meaning (meaning carried by sentence)

Example: The man open the door. (the nun phrase ‘the man’ serves as an agent o 

                 the verb ‘opened’)

3)      Utterance meaning (meaning of an utterance)

Example: Some building collapsed becaused of being old. We heard that. ( the word  

    “that” carries the meaning of the previous utterance).