Abstract
Ka:rmik Linguistic theory is one of the most revolutionary theories in linguistics which aims to describe language from a causal perspective of WHY giving rise to WHAT through HOW: “As you are, so you think; as you think, so you speak (or act)” (Bhuvaneswar). In an adapted form, it can be modified as: As you are, so you think; as you think, so you mean. In his extension of semantics to ka:rmatics in dealing with proverb-meaning, Bhuvaneswar (2012) has shown a new dimension of meaning and meaning-making, namely, the causal dimension of creation, change, and transformation of meaning in language. According to Bhuvaneswar, if semantics deals with sentence meaning and pragmatics with utterance meaning, ka:rmatics (i.e., experiential pragmatics) explores experiential meaning via dispositional meaning of contextual meaning (pragmatics) of sentential meaning (semantics). What this amounts to is a causal understanding of meaning as it is created, changed, and transformed as languages are evolved and developed: Language is as it is (i.e., lingual meaning is as it is) because of what it is (dispositionally) intended to do (i.e., to mean) what it does (i.e., means).
 In this paper, an attempt has been made by selecting two sentences used in real life Yemeni Arabic to show how meaning is derived. In the process, it will be shown how semantics becomes pragmatics and pragmatics becomes ka:rmatics.
Highlights
In the history of semantics, meaning has been studied from various aspects both in the east and the west
Ka:rmik Linguistic Motivation One important reason why the new meaning is created is novelty and fun. Another reason is the functional necessity to express such meanings which do not have equivalents. Since such meanings are relevant in current social praxis, such a meaning is accepted in interpersonal communication (IPC) between one individual (I) and another in the Yemeni society in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) where this usage is initiated and continued
Ka:rmik (Dispositional) Transmission of Language by ICCCSA. As it has gained currency, it became established at the AMU Collective (C) level and nowadays it is commonly used in the Collective – Individual IPC (CI IPC) in the Spatiotemporal material context for the construction of ka:rmik reality via lingual actionalcontextuaal actional-SCS-STM-Cognitive realities as shown in the following network
Summary
In the history of semantics, meaning has been studied from various aspects both in the east and the west. Truth, use, and ideation (see the Wikipedia article on Meaning) are taken as the basis for studying meaning and in the east, meaning has been studied extensively at the word and sentence levels and such ideas as abhida (primary meaning of a word), sphota, apoha, anvitabhidana, abhihitanvaya, and vyanjana are proposed (see Kunjunni Raja 1963 for details). One important aspect which is disposition has been overlooked or not given enough treatment. Such a perspective will give rise to a new dimension in meaning-making and leads to an entirely new branch called Ka:rmatics (experiential pragmatics) as proposed by Bhuvaneswar (2009). An attempt has been made to motivate meaning-making in a few recent neologisms from a ka:rmatic perspective
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