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This article aims to delineate two research sub-disciplines of Semantics: Syntactic Semantics and Pragmatic Semantics. The basis of this analysis is a redefinition of the relationship between sentence and utterance based on a classification of semantic content. This paper shows that specific types of semantic content can be considered as belonging to either the meaning of the sentence or the meaning of the utterance. In particular, syntactic semantics focuses on representational and objective modal meanings. On the other hand, pragmatic semantics encompasses different types of meaning, including subjective modal, thematic, communicative intent, and implicit meanings
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