Semantics and Demonstrate Lesson
SEMANTICS
What is semantics?
According to Fromkin et al. (2007), semantics refers to "the study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences." Timyam (2010) further describes the term as "the study of meaning [or the analysis of meaning]; it is mainly concerned with the meanings of words and sentences, the meaning relationships, and the conceptual system underlying meaning. Subfields of semantics include lexical semantics, which involves the meanings at lexical level and their relationships, and phrasal , sentential, or compositional semantics, which is concerned with the meanings at syntactic level. In general, there are three basic types of meaning:
1. Referential or linguistic meaning
The meaning of expression refers to or describes the actual real-world object, concept, and/or reference.
2. Affective meaning
The meaning of expression implies the emotional connotation of the language user about the content and/or the ongoing context.
3. Social meaning
The meaning of expression depends on the social nature or characteristics of the language user and/or the situations of utterance.
Synonymy
In language teaching, there are many aspects of the language that can be taught explicitly, such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural knowledge. Semantics can be applied in the teaching of vocabulary, in particular, to expose the learners to the semantic relations among words at lexical semantics level. The relations include synonymy, antonymy, converseness, metonymy, polysemy and homonymy, and hyponymy.
For instance, students can be taught the concept of synonymy that words which have the same set of referents in the real words they are called synonyms, such as: movie, film, flick, and motion picture big, large, enormous, huge, massive, and mountainous
This way, students are enhanced with the ability to memorize vocabulary since synonyms can often be substituted for each other in sentences. However, perfect synonyms are
What is semantics?
According to Fromkin et al. (2007), semantics refers to "the study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences." Timyam (2010) further describes the term as "the study of meaning [or the analysis of meaning]; it is mainly concerned with the meanings of words and sentences, the meaning relationships, and the conceptual system underlying meaning. Subfields of semantics include lexical semantics, which involves the meanings at lexical level and their relationships, and phrasal , sentential, or compositional semantics, which is concerned with the meanings at syntactic level. In general, there are three basic types of meaning:
1. Referential or linguistic meaning
The meaning of expression refers to or describes the actual real-world object, concept, and/or reference.
2. Affective meaning
The meaning of expression implies the emotional connotation of the language user about the content and/or the ongoing context.
3. Social meaning
The meaning of expression depends on the social nature or characteristics of the language user and/or the situations of utterance.
Synonymy
In language teaching, there are many aspects of the language that can be taught explicitly, such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural knowledge. Semantics can be applied in the teaching of vocabulary, in particular, to expose the learners to the semantic relations among words at lexical semantics level. The relations include synonymy, antonymy, converseness, metonymy, polysemy and homonymy, and hyponymy.
For instance, students can be taught the concept of synonymy that words which have the same set of referents in the real words they are called synonyms, such as: movie, film, flick, and motion picture big, large, enormous, huge, massive, and mountainous
This way, students are enhanced with the ability to memorize vocabulary since synonyms can often be substituted for each other in sentences. However, perfect synonyms are