Interpreting Meaning in Conversations: From Semantic to Pragmatic Meanings

Abstract

This research aims to reveal the mechanisms for calculating the semantic and pragmatic meanings and to highlight the laws in which they operate. In addressing the semantic meaning, we have been exposed to the explicit level of conversation, and we have shown the lexical and synthetic methods of semantic space in relation to its actual main speech and the words that branch out from it. We then addressed the calculation of layers of implicit meanings, revealing their pragmatic sources surrounding the speech and directing the analyst to understand and interpret it based on the use of knowledge, context, cultural and social data from outside the conversation. We have found that they vary from analyst to another depending on their drilling capacity. We then touched on the polysemy of meanings in the conversation and found it to be an extension of the implicit meanings, but it operates according to a network of relationships linking three contexts: a local context, a general context and a communicative context, and we concluded a number of findings that the layers of explicit meaning lie in dismantling the texture  of conversation, that layers of implicit meaning lie in the analyst's ability to dig and dive into the implicit, and that the layers of multiple meanings lie in the ability to be aware of the nature of the relationships linking the contexts of production.