FINAL MAGAZINE III
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SEMANTICS<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
It was taken Web says: “a sub discipline of linguistics which focuses on the study of<br />
meaning. Semantics tries to understand what meaning is as an element of language and how<br />
it is constructed by language as well as interpreted, obscured and negotiated by speakers<br />
and listeners of language”. It was taken from:<br />
https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/all-about-linguistics/branches/semantics/what-is-semantics<br />
SEMANTICS<br />
Semantics Guide 1rst says: “The<br />
word mean, then, can be applied to<br />
people who use language, i.e. to<br />
speakers (and authors), in roughly<br />
the sense of ‘intend’. And it can be<br />
applied to words and sentences in a<br />
different sense, roughly expressed<br />
as ‘be equivalent to’. The first step<br />
in working out a theory of what<br />
meaning stands for, is to recognize<br />
this distinction clearly and always<br />
to keep in mind whether we are<br />
talking about what speakers mean<br />
or what words (or sentences) mean.<br />
The study of semantics looks at<br />
how meaning works in language,<br />
and because of this it often uses<br />
native speaker intuitions about<br />
the meaning of words and<br />
phrases to base research on.
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