Semiotics: the study of signs.
Linguistics Discussion Forum. Recently, I've heard this sort of theory so I'm gonna share this with you and want to hear your opinions as well. It's about categorizing the language into "Objective or Subjective (not she, her ..) " depending on the meaning. 1. Objective meaning : do (perfect tense included), auxiliary verbs (not subjunctive), relative-clause, conjunction-clause. 2.
Subjective meaning (In speaker's mind, personal, emotional) : to do (yet happened) , ~ing (now), ~ed (happened). For example ... [1] do Vs. ~ing; -ed - The book sells well. (The fact that many customers buy this book. objective) - The book is selling well. (From the speaker's judging and opinion and thought in his mind, many customers buy this book now, subjective) - The book is well sold. Linguistics. Lingforum.com. Linguistics - Google News.
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