UTTERANCES SENTECES AND PROPOSITIONS

UTTERANCES

MEANING

SENTENCES

MEANING

PROPOSITION

MEANING

An utterance is the use of any piece of language by a particular speaker on a particular situation. It can be in the form of a sequence of sentences, a single clause, a single phrase, or just a single word

Examples:

JOHN: "ouchh" look at that car accident

JOHANNA: Oh my god

JOHN: We should go

JOHANNA: uyyyy nooo, I don´t want

A sentence is a grammatically complete string of words expressing a (partial) complete thought. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request or command

Examples:

1. I'm studying to be a good English teacher
2. when I get home after work I get tired

A proposition is a sentence expressing something true or false .
A proposition may be related to other units of its kind through interpropositional relations, such as temporal relations and logical relations

Examples:

"Grass is green", and "2 + 5 = 5" are propositions.
The first proposition has the truth value of "true" and the second "false".