Meaning Carrier

A Meaning Carrier is a Referencer created by an Agent that is in a Meaning Relation with a Referent.

• Context:
  • It can communicate a Concept to another Agent.
  • It can range from being
    • an Extra-Linguistic Meaning Carrier (that communicates concepts outside of a language, e.g. a content word).
    • to being an Intra-Linguistic Meaning Carrier (that communicates concepts within a language, e.g. a grammatical word.)
• Example(s):
  • Content Word.
  • Morpheme.
  • Sentence.
• See: Meaning, Natural Language Word.

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