I will be exploring both Sense, Denotation, and expressive meanings in words. Expressive meaning is words like “ouch” that convey the speaker’s attitude or feelings. Sense and Denotation was a topic that stood out to me because it opened up my eyes in realizing that on a daily basis I tend to see and use words that are the exact same but can have two completely different meanings or denotations in different discursive universes. I admire how when talking about sense and denotation you are able to see that the sensor determines a denotation set for each situation, and knowing the sense of the word allows speakers to identify the members of this set” this way it gives off a meaningful concept but referents in our world during the present time today. Although denotation “depends upon the universe in which the discourse takes place” I would furthermore like to explore and understand more about the connotations and words that can enhance the description, meaning and possibly the tone in which someone states a word. How is it that two expressions with the same denotation can have two different senses? These are questions that we have to ask ourselves assuming that everyone has the same mental capacity to perceive concepts; For example,  “if a language fails to provide a word for the color yellow; language does indeed affect perception “ language gets perceived as in multiple things based off of your thoughts and on the way that you see and interpret a specific thing. I plan on conducting a survey that can get people to answer the question without being self-conscious about their answers. For instance, if I ask “who taught you how to ride a bike?” They could either answer “mom or mother” or “dad or papa”; this indicates their usage of expressive meaning. 

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