In daily
life, people communicate and need to reach practical agreement on the meanings
of words they use in order to yield effective and meaningful communication. It
is known that some show their disagreement about the rule of constructing a
meaning from a word. However, we find that we as speakers or hearers understand
all words since people who involved in the conversation are having
indispensable hard core of meaning. Thus, this vital meaning is called as sense of expression.
In semantics, experts argue there
are two main ways of teaching sense of expression such as sense relation with
other expression and sense properties.
Sense properties consists of two words which have literal meaning i.e. sense and property. The former means a meaning conveyed or intended while the
latter is defined as a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an
individual or thing (merriam-webster.com). I propose that sense properties
refer to a quality or trait belongs to
conveyed meanings. The quality of conveyed meaning usually can be done if a
language is uttered or written in a sentence not in a word. It is because sentence
meaning is proposition which means possess literal meaning or locution while a
word is only a concept. Hurford and Heasley suggest that there are three ways
of identifying a quality of a sentence such as analytic, synthetic, and
contradictory.
