Varieties of Meaning

One of languages many uses is to communicate information and to express your feelings. This can be done through telling jokes, asking questions , or greeting a friend. Cognitive meaning is given to terms that communicate information, and the terms which express emotions are said to have emotive meaning. An example of both emotive and cognitive meaning can be seen in these two sentence:
The death penalty, which is legal in thirty-six states, has been carried out most often in Georgia; however, since 1977 Texas holds the record for the greatest number of executions.
The death penalty is a cruel and inuman form of punishment in which hapless prisoners are dragged from their cells and summarily slaughtered only to satiate the bloodlust of a vengeful public.
As you can see the words "cruel", "inhuman", and "hapless" and invoke a very emotional feeling, while the words "Georgia" and "record" are just use cognitively. However this example shows a very important issue in logic, which is that emotionally packed sentences can have both cognitive and emotive meanings. This being the reason why in logic we are only concerned about the cognitive meanings, because it makes it easier for us to seperate the meanings from each other. Also with cognitive meanings we can find the value claim, which basicaly states that something is better, worse, or right or wrong compared to something else.