Meaning
Meaningis a term inlinguisticsandphilosophy.It is also a word in everyday life. The basic idea is this: meaning is theinformationwhich is sent by speech or messages. What that information is can beinferredby a listener or reader.
Meaning makes sense as part of aconversationbetween two or more people. The bits of a conversation, likequestionsandanswers,suggestionsandexplanations,work to help the meaning get across.Requestsandinstructionsare other types of communication which depend on meaning.
Although humans use language to carry meaning,non-verbal communicationdefinitely has meaning. In fact it is far more ancient than human language, and interpreting its meaning is mostly done by theunconscious mind.Messages travel byscentand sight as well as sound. Humans do some of this as well as almost all animals. In humans,facialexpressionsand the sense oftouchare very important. All these things have meaning.