Semantics

SEMANTICS: Semantics is the study of meaning expressed by elements of any language, characterizableAs a symbolic system.It is the goal of linguistic semantics to describe the meaning of linguistic elements and toStudy the principles which allow (and exclude) the assignment of meaning to combinations of these elements. A complete and an adequate semantic theory– characterizes the systematic meaning relations between words and sentences of a language, and– provides an account of the relations between linguistic expressions and the things that they can be used to talk about (De Swart 1998, p.2).

1 Semantics is the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. there are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which study word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning. So I think semantics is encharge about all meanigs that a word has depending on the context.(www.oxforddictionaries.com)

.MEANING: The nonlinguistic cultural correlate, reference, or denotation of a linguisti form; expression.well, if semantics is related to the meaning, I think this word is the most important here, because it is the base of what semantics is.

CONCEPT: an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics, or particulars; a contruct.I think this word is related to semantics because after you got a meaning of a word, you can create your own meaning based on your context or situation.

REFERENT: The object or event to which a term or symbol refers.as I said before, when you have a meaning, you can construct your own idea about the meaning you need, then you create a referent, I mean an image that let you think about that new word or concept or even meaning.

GRAMMATICAL MEANING: The meaning of an inflexional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.Meanig have some categories, I think this is one of them, for that reason it is very important to understand the different ways that semantics define a word.

LEXICAL MEANING: The meaning of a based morpheme.this is the category of meaning which is related to free morphemes, so other way to define a word by semantics.

DENOTATIVE: Havig the power of name or indicate something. so, you can also name or denotate  something in order to create a meaning.

CONNOTATIVE: Signifyng or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to primary meaning.I think it is a meaning that we can use in order to complement a meaning of a word.

METAPHOR: A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.It is an interesting way semantics uses to give different meanings as comparisons between things.

POLYSEMY: Diversity of meanings.it is related about all the possible meanings that a word can have dependeing on the intenction and the context.

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