semantics

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How is life? in this opportunity i'm going to tell you about part of linguistic,it's semantics.. let's read:)

 What is semantic?
Definition of Semantics
Semantics is the part of linguistics that is concerned with meaning

 Philosophers and linguists alike have long debated the intricacies of language, how we construct meaning, and how stationary those meanings really are. You've probably heard the line, 'That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' Shakespeare asserts here then that a name doesn't matter - it's what that thing or concept really is. Even if we ceased to call a rose a rose, we could still smell its fragrance, feel its velvety petals, and be pricked by its thorns.

You can see from the picture above the mental image I had when I read the word 'rose.' Human communication would become extremely tricky if we all associated completely different meanings with a given vocabulary word. If you said 'mango' when I saw a rose, and we were trying to describe the same thing, you can see where we'd have a problem.

Semantics means the meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure. Semantics largely determine our reading comprehension, how we understand others, and even what decisions we make as a result of our interpretations. Semantics can also refer to the branch of study within linguistics that deals with language and how we understand meaning. This has been a particularly interesting field for philosophers as they debate the essence of meaning, how we build meaning, how we share meaning with others, and how meaning changes over time.

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Five benefits of Semantics In Linguistics

The study of issue of meaning and its manifestation in language is normally referred to as Semantic In Linguistics. The term semantics as ‘relating to signification or meaning’/Broadly speaking, semantics is that aspect of ’ linguistics which deals with the relations between referents (names) and referents (things. that is, known as five  linguistic levels  and the objects-or concepts or-ideas to which they refer—and with the history and changes in the meaning of words,) Diachronic  semantics which is also called historical linguistics  studies semantic change over time scientifically we can say its shift  and change of language across time.
Synchronic semantics deals semantic relationship, which limited to the particular fixed time. This study finds the intrinsic variations of words in a fixed time.
A semanticist would like to find how people is able to understand the surface and deep structures meaning, how they can manipulate the true meaning with their own perception.
We can see A semantic analysis, of English language will have broad research because linguist has to explain role of synuomys, atnoyms, style of words, and expression of sentences with details. Because for linguistic context is more important.
it should give an account of semantic properties and relations. Hence to understand the meaning of a sentence and its semantic relations to other expressions, one must know not only the meaning of its lexical elements but also how they inter-relate.
We can say,  semantic theory must:
(a) Make reference to the syntactic structure in a precise way;
(b) Systematically represent the meaning of the single words;
(c) Show how the structure of the meaning of words and the syntactic relations interact, in order to constitute the interpretation of sentences; and
(d) It must indicate how the interpretations are related to the things spoken about

Five benefits of Semantics In Linguistics

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The study of issue of meaning and its manifestation in language is normally referred to as Semantic In Linguistics. The term semantics as ‘relating to signification or meaning’/Broadly speaking, semantics is that aspect of ’ linguistics which deals with the relations between referents (names) and referents (things. that is, known as five  linguistic levels  and the objects-or concepts or-ideas to which they refer—and with the history and changes in the meaning of words,) Diachronic  semantics which is also called historical linguistics  studies semantic change over time scientifically we can say its shift  and change of language across time.
Synchronic semantics deals semantic relationship, which limited to the particular fixed time. This study finds the intrinsic variations of words in a fixed time.
A semanticist would like to find how people is able to understand the surface and deep structures meaning, how they can manipulate the true meaning with their own perception.
We can see A semantic analysis, of English language will have broad research because linguist has to explain role of synuomys, atnoyms, style of words, and expression of sentences with details. Because for linguistic context is more important.
it should give an account of semantic properties and relations. Hence to understand the meaning of a sentence and its semantic relations to other expressions, one must know not only the meaning of its lexical elements but also how they inter-relate.
We can say,  semantic theory must:
(a) Make reference to the syntactic structure in a precise way;
(b) Systematically represent the meaning of the single words;
(c) Show how the structure of the meaning of words and the syntactic relations interact, in order to constitute the interpretation of sentences; and
(d) It must indicate how the interpretations are related to the things spoken about.

Importance of  study Semantics In Linguistics

Although the structuralists tried to study language without meaning, the importance of meaning has been recognized since time immemorial. Were the words eternal, one word would have meant one and the same thing in all the languages, there would have been no semantic change, and men would not have felt any necessity of learning words? Nevertheless, some western scholars too have started talking about semantic universals now-a-days, and today, there is a wide agreement than it ever was that meaning is the soul of languags
DIFFICULTIES IN THE STUDY OF MEANING
Many linguist claims that it is difficult to understand the true meaning of word.  Signaling and abstract system are involved in terms of meaning. They further explained when we study the language we study the semantic system not the structure of whole language.
Scholars have long puzzled over what words mean of what they represent, or how they relate to reality. They have at times wondered whether words are more real than objects, It is impossible to describe meaning adequately in any other way except by saying how words are typically used as part of longer sentences and how these sentences are used The meanings of sentences and their components are better dealt with in linguistics in terms of how they function than exclusively in terms of what they refer to.
When we talk about meaning, we are talking about the ability of human beings to understand one another when they speak. This ability is to some extent connected with grammar.

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