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though a rare linguistic phenomenon, are of crucial importance in the
translation of poetry.
Logicians and semanticists attribute meaning to sign denotata. A
sign may have one or more meaning according to its physical or non-
physical denotatum. The relative variability of the meaning of a
specific word is anticipated by the situational context in which it
occurs. This accounts for the infinite flexibility of language use to
cope with the infinite variety of human experience. Therefore, the
linguistic garment in which the message is clothed must be
appropriately tailored, otherwise it would look shapeless, loose or
inadequate.
Linguistics is commonly known as the scientific study of language.
As such, it studies, analyses, and integrates the various components of
the linguistic phenomenon. By linguistic phenomenon I mean the verbal
or non-verbal sequence of utterances or gestures. The minimal terrain
of linguistics is the sentence, which may be roughly defined as a
stretch of lexical items internally structured and organized to
constitute a phonological, grammatical, syntactic and semantic whole.
It is the gramwatical well-formedness of the sentence which invests it
with signification. Unless the phonological, grammatical, syntactic,
and semantic structures of the sentence are coherently integrated,
there is every possibility that the meaning will be hardly
intelligible. But is the sentence, upon which traditional linguistics
is based, a proper vehicle for communication among humans? In other
words, does intercommunication or trans-communication occur on the
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