Grammatical Meaning between Investigation and Imitation

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South Valley University

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The ancient Arab scholars called everything that is understood from the words of the language, whether singular or compound, and other functions, the term "meaning", then the descendants followed them generation after generation until what is known as semantics appeared, so the moderns translated it into the term "semantics".
The real problem lies in the grammatical meaning that is called grammatical meaning, and all these terms are generally considered to be a mixture of different types of semantics.
The grammatical meaning is not equivalent to the grammatical meaning; because semantics is more general than meaning, and what is understood from the elements of the grammatical structure according to the location of each element is a task or role in the observed reality that that structural element refers to.
The equality between meaning and function leads to the loss of the difference between the specialization of linguistic study and grammatical study; Meaning is related to perceptions with a mental image derived from the words themselves within a specific context, and the function expresses the role of the linguistic element in the structure such as the subject and the object, and these are not meanings, but rather behaviors issued by the person or thing that is expressed by a linguistic symbol, such as Muhammad did, Muhammad has a meaning (has a mental image) represented by the imagined person, and a function represented by this person being the one who performed the action.
 
 

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