Semantics in Linguistics

Semantics in Linguistics

1. Phonology: is the study meaning of individual words and sentences

2. Syntax: is the study of how words can be combined into sentences.

3. Entailment: mean a relationship between sentences so that if a sentences entails a sentence B if we kno A we know automatically B

4. Signification: is the process of creating and interpreting symbols

5. Semiotics: study of the use of sign systems.

6. Definitions theory: theory of semantics.

7. Circularity: we can state the meaning of a word, exept in other words

8. Linguistic knowledge: about the meaning words

9. Encyclopedic knowledge: about the way the word is

10. Idiolect: the technical term for an indviduals languge.

11. Metalanguage: to describe the semantic units and rules of all language

12. Lexicon: meaning of a word for the speaker

13. Literal meaning: the direct idea about somenthing.

14. Prdocutivity: new words that has invented to give a meaning faster to somenthing.

15. Compositional: the meaning of an expression is determined by the meaning of its component parts and the way in which they are combined.

16. Refer: to specific entities in the world.

17. Utterances: are real pices of speech

18. Propositiones: are descriptions of states of affairs.