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    This document discusses semantics and its role in language. It defines semantics as the deconstruction of words, signals, and sentence structure to understand meaning in context. Semantics influences reading comprehension and is important for daily communication and language learning, even if subconsciously. The document then outlines some key aspects of semantics, including formal semantics which analyzes the relationship between language and reality, and lexical semantics which breaks down individual words and their meanings. Various types of lexical semantics are also defined, such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, prototypes, homophony, and homonymy.

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    This document discusses semantics and its role in language. It defines semantics as the deconstruction of words, signals, and sentence structure to understand meaning in context. Semantics influences reading comprehension and is important for daily communication and language learning, even if subconsciously. The document then outlines some key aspects of semantics, including formal semantics which analyzes the relationship between language and reality, and lexical semantics which breaks down individual words and their meanings. Various types of lexical semantics are also defined, such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, prototypes, homophony, and homonymy.

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    This document discusses semantics and its role in language. It defines semantics as the deconstruction of words, signals, and sentence structure to understand meaning in context. Semantics influences reading comprehension and is important for daily communication and language learning, even if subconsciously. The document then outlines some key aspects of semantics, including formal semantics which analyzes the relationship between language and reality, and lexical semantics which breaks down individual words and their meanings. Various types of lexical semantics are also defined, such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, prototypes, homophony, and homonymy.

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    SEMANTICS OF

    MOTHER
    TONGUE
    Teacher Angelica
    Semantics

    • Semantics involves the deconstruction of words, signal and sentence


    structure.
    • It influences our reading comprehension of other people’s words in
    everyday conversation.
    • Semantics play a large part in our daily communication and language
    learning without us even realizing it.
    • In everyday use, a child might make use of semantics to understand a
    mom’s directive to “do you chores” as do your chores whenever you feel
    like it.”
    Formal
    Semantics

    Different theories Lexical


    Semantics
    used with semantics

    Conceptual
    Semantics
    Formal Semantics

    Formal semantics uses


    techniques from math,
    philosophy, and logic to
    analyze the broader
    relationship between language
    and reality, truth and
    possibility.
    Lexical Semantics

    • Lexical semantics is the


    deconstruction of words and phases
    within a line of text to understand
    and meaning in terms of context.
    • Lexical semantics includes the study
    of individual nouns, verbs,
    adjustives, prefixes, root words and
    suffixes.
    Lexical Semantics

    • Lexical semantics is the


    deconstruction of words and phases
    within a line of text to understand
    and meaning in terms of context.
    • Lexical semantics includes the study
    of individual nouns, verbs,
    adjustives, prefixes, root words and
    suffixes.
    Synonymy

    Types of Lexical Antonymy


    Semantics

    Hyponymy
    Prototypes

    Types of Lexical Homophony


    Semantics

    Homonymy
    Synonymy Synonymy is two or more
    words whose meaning are
    closed related and the same.
    Example: big- huge
    Antonymy Antonymy exist in words
    which are opposite in
    meaning.
    Example: good-bad
    male-female
    Hyponymy Hyponymy is a word or
    phase whose semantic is
    more specific.
    Example: bougainvilla-
    flower
    Prototype Prototypes is a cognitive
    reference point.
    Example: “Tomato which
    is fruit classified as
    vegetables.”
    Homophony Homophony is two or
    more words with similar
    pronunciation but different
    spelling and meaning.
    Example: Bare-bear
    meat- meet
    Homonymy Homonymy is two or more
    words with the same spelling
    or pronunciation but different
    meaning and origin.
    Example: The word race.
    Thank
    you
    See you next time!

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