Thus, to know a word is to know it in several ways. 1)to recognize its series of meaningfully separable sound segments or letters in the stream of speech or in the written text; 2)to recognize the accumulated experiences with which its sound segments or letters are associated;3)to recognize its function in a sentence or an utterance as it works grammatically with other words; 4)to relate words to the social and cultural context in which they are uttered so as to figure out the speaker’s intention or illocutionary force