What Is Semantics?

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What is semantics

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Study of meaning in language

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Question to ask when studying semnatics

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How is language organised in order to be meaningful?

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How to start understanding what is meaning?

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Start from question of relationship between words and objects which words represent

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Essential connection between words and meaning. Idea found where?

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Platos dialogue Cratylus

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Later thinkers idea?

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Meaning of words refers to CONCEPT of the object in our minds– signifier, signified

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Does word resemble concept?

Answer 6

No

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The meaning of meaning book by? For what?

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Ogden and Richards , attempts to define meaning

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All language consists of

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Signs which indicate other signs

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Types of meanings ?

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Logical/denotative, connotative, social, thematic

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Minimal unit of meaning?

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Sememe

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Difference between connotative and denotative meaning?

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Connotative changes with time and culture, denotative does not

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Lexical meaning can be split into?

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Open class and closed class

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What is the meaning only in relation to other items in sentence?

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Grammatical meaning

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Grammatical meaning is for

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Closed class lexical items

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Meaning of a sentence is product of

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Lexical and grammatical meaning both

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The relation between linguistic items and non linguistic items(world of experience)is

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Reference

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Relation of a word with other words is

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Sense relation

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Some sense relations?

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Homonym, homograph, polysemy, synonym, antonym, hyponomy, homophony

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Combo of words to produce a different meaning other than their components is

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Compounds, phrasal verbs, idioms

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Habitual juxtaposition of words with composite meaning

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Collocation

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Sentence meaning is?

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Literal meaning of sentence

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Utterance meaning is?

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Meaning of sentence when speaker uses it to perform an ACT appropriate for the circumstances

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Intonation also affects sentence meaning. Intonation is?

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Changing emphasis on words

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What is entailment?

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When one sentence includes meaning of another sentence just like hyponymy. inherently logical.

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What is presupposition?

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When a previously known meaning between speaker and hearer is implied in sentence.