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Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning, especially regarding the relationship between words or symbols and what they represent. It includes studying how meaning is constructed and understood through language and other communication systems. Semantics involves analyzing how signs and symbols are interpreted based on their use and context. It intersects with various related fields that also examine meaning and language. The formal study of semantics considers many complex factors for understanding how meaning is constructed and conveyed.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning, especially regarding the relationship between words or symbols and what they represent. It includes studying how meaning is constructed and understood through language and other communication systems. Semantics involves analyzing how signs and symbols are interpreted based on their use and context. It intersects with various related fields that also examine meaning and language. The formal study of semantics considers many complex factors for understanding how meaning is constructed and conveyed.

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Semantics (from Greek sēmantikós) is the

study of meaning. It typically focuses on the


relation between signifiers, such as words,
phrases, signs and symbols, and what they
stand for. Linguistic semantics is the study of
meanings that humans use language to
express. Other forms of semantics include the
semantics of programming languages, formal
logics, and semiotics.
The word "semantics" itself denotes a range of
ideas, from the popular to the highly technical.
It is often used in ordinary language to denote
a problem of understanding that comes down
to word selection or connotation. This problem
of understanding has been the subject of many
formal inquiries, over a long period of time,
most notably in the field of formal semantics. In
linguistics, it is the study of interpretation of
signs or symbols as used by agents or
communities within particular circumstances
and contexts. Within this view, sounds, facial
expressions, body language, proxemics have
semantic (meaningful) content, and each has
several branches of study. In written language,
such things as paragraph structure and
punctuation have semantic content; in other
forms of language, there is other semantic
content.
The formal study of semantics intersects with
many other fields of inquiry, including
lexicology, syntax, pragmatics, etymology and
others, although semantics is a well-defined
field in its own right, often with synthetic
properties. In philosophy of language,
semantics and reference are related fields.
Further related fields include philology,
communication, and semiotics. The formal
study of semantics is therefore complex.

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