(Remembering details vs. getting an overall meaning) links individual memory traces together, to create conceptual chunks.
Connotation, such as good or bad reputation, in contrast to denotation, can be considered a kind of non-linguistic meaning.
The word "meaning" can be used to describe the internal workings of the mind, independently of any linguistic activity.
Within his model, a "meaning" is the external source of gratification associated with the human erogenous zones and their respective modes.
Some communication by body language arises out of bodily signals that follow directly out of human instinct.
Non-linguistic meaning may be identified as pragmatics, and include beliefs, implicatures, social factors and other features of the context.
These relations carry strong intrinsic (life and death) meaning for all living organisms, including people.
Observations of child development and of behavioral abnormalities in some people indicate that some innate capabilities of human beings are essential to the process of meaning creation.