SBVR11 — Conflation of the signifier “rulebook” with the concept/definition for Speech Community Representations

Issue Title: Conflation of the signifier “rulebook” with the concept/definition for Speech Community Representations (a container concept /set)

Clause: 11.2.2.3

Printer Page: 155

Issue Statement:

The concept (definition) in Clause 11.2.2.3 defined as:

the set of representations determined by a given speech community to represent in its language all meanings in its body of shared meanings

is conflated with the undefined concept most commonly associated with the signifier “rulebook.”

The set defined in this entry is only the representations for one speech community and does not include any semantic connections between meanings, which are required to compose the content of a rulebook.

Proposed Solution:

Separate the two concepts by creating a new entry for “rulebook”; provide a definition for rulebook that can be used to produce one; and replace the signifier “rulebook” on the existing entry with “speech community representations”.

Separate the two conflated concepts into two separate entries by creating a separate entry for rulebook with the appropriate definition and changing the signifier of the current entry to “speech community representations”.