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Introduction To Semantics

Linguistics is the systematic study of language. Semantics is the branch of linguistics that focuses on the study of meaning, including word meanings and sentence meanings. The scope of semantics includes naming concepts, sense, and referent. Semantics examines the relationship between symbols like words, referents like real-world experiences, and the thoughts or concepts they reference. Meaning is complex and contextual, involving relations between phonology, morphology, and other linguistic components that can construct different meanings from words.

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Introduction To Semantics

Linguistics is the systematic study of language. Semantics is the branch of linguistics that focuses on the study of meaning, including word meanings and sentence meanings. The scope of semantics includes naming concepts, sense, and referent. Semantics examines the relationship between symbols like words, referents like real-world experiences, and the thoughts or concepts they reference. Meaning is complex and contextual, involving relations between phonology, morphology, and other linguistic components that can construct different meanings from words.

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PHONOLOGY

SEMANTICS

linguistics
SYNTAX

MORPHOLOGY

Linguistics,

is the systemic study of language

SEMANTICS,

is the branch of linguistics


which focuses on the study of meaning, both
word meaning and sentence meaning

The

scope of semantics: naming, concepts,


sense and referent

Symbol:

the linguistic components


Referent: world experience
Thought /
Reference: the concept
reference

symbol

referent

What

is meaning??

Meaning

is to be regarded as a complex of
contextual relations, phonology and
morphology can construct different meaning
of word

Lexical

/ grammatical meanings??

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