every language has a
special sieve of its own. The discipline which studies such metaphorical sieves
is semantics. (A semanticist
would describe his valuable and difficult work more elegantly, but this is a
reasonable approximation to part of what he does.)
2.GrammaticalEncoding.Once
speaker Ahas
found the proper semantic units for his message, he must next arrange them in
the particular way the grammar of his language requires. If in English he wants
to get across the idea of "dog," "man," and
"bite"—with the dog and not the man doing the biting—he has to encode
it in the order dog bites man;
the order man bites
dog gives quite a different message.
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