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Which of the following items appear to illustrate sentence meaning and which illustrate speaker meaning in the way these concepts were introduced in this unit? Be able to explain your choice.

a) A bachelor is an unmarried man

b) A red light means ‘stop’

c) My feet are killing me

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B. It’s the most accurate in terms of using it in a literal way. A and C aren’t always taken literally or true.
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