Semantics
SEMANTICS
(Concepts, and major questions) Prepared by: Mabanag, Leomar A.
SEMANTICS
Sub discipline of linguistics focuses on the study of meanings.
It understands what meaning is as an element of language.
It is closely linked to pragmatics.
PRAGMATICS
SEMANTICS
Study of meaning
Study of meaning
More practical subject and is interested in meaning in language in use.
highly theoretical research perspective, and looks at meaning in language in isolation, in the language itself MEANING
CONNOTATION
WHAT IS
Is meaning simply the
MEANING?set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it?
Implied meaning
DENOTATION
It has also been suggested that the meaning of a word is simply the entity in the
World which that word refers to.
DICTIONARY meaning
EXTENSION
INTENSION
Things in the world that Concepts, mental the word/phrase refers images that the word or to. phrase evokes.
HOW MEANING WORKS IN LANGUAGE?
The study of semantics looks at how meaning works in language, and because of this it often uses native speaker intuitions about the meaning of words and phrases to base research on.
Why
is semantics studied? "If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication which in turn is an important factor in how society is organised.“ The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words written down in a sentence
EXAMPLE:
a) An enraged cow killed a farmer using an axe.
b) An enraged cow killed a farmer who had an axe.
HOW IS SEMANTICS BEING
STUDIED?
The
study is semantics is highly theoretical. The main researchers are philosophers who study semantics in a more theoretical manner
Lexical semantics can be defined as 'the study of meaning ', therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning.
It is about studying language in
(Concepts, and major questions) Prepared by: Mabanag, Leomar A.
SEMANTICS
Sub discipline of linguistics focuses on the study of meanings.
It understands what meaning is as an element of language.
It is closely linked to pragmatics.
PRAGMATICS
SEMANTICS
Study of meaning
Study of meaning
More practical subject and is interested in meaning in language in use.
highly theoretical research perspective, and looks at meaning in language in isolation, in the language itself MEANING
CONNOTATION
WHAT IS
Is meaning simply the
MEANING?set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it?
Implied meaning
DENOTATION
It has also been suggested that the meaning of a word is simply the entity in the
World which that word refers to.
DICTIONARY meaning
EXTENSION
INTENSION
Things in the world that Concepts, mental the word/phrase refers images that the word or to. phrase evokes.
HOW MEANING WORKS IN LANGUAGE?
The study of semantics looks at how meaning works in language, and because of this it often uses native speaker intuitions about the meaning of words and phrases to base research on.
Why
is semantics studied? "If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication which in turn is an important factor in how society is organised.“ The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words written down in a sentence
EXAMPLE:
a) An enraged cow killed a farmer using an axe.
b) An enraged cow killed a farmer who had an axe.
HOW IS SEMANTICS BEING
STUDIED?
The
study is semantics is highly theoretical. The main researchers are philosophers who study semantics in a more theoretical manner
Lexical semantics can be defined as 'the study of meaning ', therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning.
It is about studying language in
References: 2] Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. (1996). 'Donald Davidson '. [3] Tufts University. (2010). 'Ray Jackendoff 's Homepage '.