Semantics

Semantics

1. Study

   • Meaning in language
     • What speaker means
     • Sentence meaning
       • word meaning
     • Giving information
     • part of communication
   • utterance
     • one person
       • stretch of talk
       • use by particular speaker
       • Particular occasion
       • Piece of language
   • Sentence
     • string of words
       • by grammatical rules
         • Express complete
           • Thought
     • abstract
   • Proposition
     • Part of meaning
       • utterance
         • persons / things
           • Refered by expressions
           • declarative
           • imperative
           • interrogative
   • Reference
     • relationships
       • language
       • world
   • Sense
     • place in a system
       • semantic
         • relationships
           • other expressions