semantics
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Semantics is the part of linguistics which is study about
meaning. It focuses on the relationship between signifiers like words, phrases,
signs, symbol and what their stand for, their destination. In International
Scientific Vocabulary semantics is also called semasiology. The formal study of
semantics intersects with many other field of inquiry, including lexicology,
syntax,pragmatics, etymology, and others. Semantics as a field of study also
has significant ties to various representational theories of meaning including
truth theories of meaning, coherence theories of meaning, and correspondence of
meaning.
In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the
study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and
larger units of discourse. The basic study of semantics is oriented to the
examination of meaning of signs, and the study of relations between different
linguistics units and compounds: homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, hypernimy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy,
holonymy, paronyms.
Synonyms are the word with similar meanings. They are listed in a
special type of dictionary lists word according to form, usually in
alphabetical order, a thesaurus lists words according to meaning. Synonyms usually
differ in at least one semantic feature. Sometimes the feature is
objective(denotative), referring to some actual, real, world difference, in the
referents. Sometimes the feature is subjective(connotative) referring to how
speaker feels about the referent rather than any real difference in the
referent itself.
Paronyms are words with associated meanings which also have great
similarities in form: proscribe/prescribe, industrial/industrious,
except/accept, affect/effect.
Antonyms are word that have the opposite meaning. Oppositeness is a
logical category. There are 3 types:
Complementary pairs
Gradable pairs
Relational oppositeness
Metonymy use of word to mean something existing in close physical
proximity: The White House said meaning The President said
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