SEMANTICS

SEMANTICS

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I want to tell you about semantics, do you know  what  is semantics??  I think some of  you know what is semantics , so if you do not what is semantics don’t  worry guys I will to try explain for us.

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. Although it can be conceived as concerned with meaning in general, it is often confined to those aspects which are relatively stable and context free, in contrast to pragmatics, which is concerned with meaning variation with context.

Feature Semantics

• Semantics is Study Relations BETWEEN mark ( emblem ) WITH The object referenced by the Signs

• ·        Semantics is Study Regarding Meaning.

The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning is constructed, interpreted, clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified, negotiated, contradicted, and paraphrased.

The noun semantics and the adjective semantic are derived from the Greek word semantikos (“significant”). In semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as borne on the syntactic levels of words, phrases, sentences, and sometimes larger units of discourse, generically referred to as text.

Some important areas of semantic theory or related subjects include these:

•       Symbol and referent

•       Conceptions of meaning

•       Words and lexemes

•       Denotation, connotation, implication

•       Pragmatics

•       Ambiguity

•       Metaphor, simile and symbol

•       Semantic fields

•      Synonym, antonym and hyponym

•      Collocation, fixed expression and idiom

•      Semantic change and etymology

•      Polysemy

•      Homonymy, homophones and  homographs

Study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences is called Semantics.

Subfields of semantics are lexical (of or relating to the vocabulary, words, or morphemes of a language) semantics, which is concerned with the meanings of words, and the meaning relationships among words; and phrasal or sentential semantics, which is concerned with the meaning of syntactic units larger than the word.

Type of semantics  : 

1. connotative semantics 

2. denotative semantics 

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