SOME PRELIMINARIES: WHAT IS SEMANTICS?

SOME PRELIMINARIES: WHAT IS SEMANTICS?

1. Semantics

   • Study
     • Meaning
       • Through language
       • Words
       • Sentences
   • Diverse field
     • How language
       • Organize
       • Exprese
         • Meaning

2. Meaning

   • Speaking
     • Communicating
       • Information
     • Shows
       • Ideas
       • Feelings
       • Intentions
       • Anything we can think

3. Language and thought

   • Symbolic view
     • Concept / idea
       • In mind (symbol)
     • Arbitrary relation
       • Given content
     • Arbitrary
       • Psycal tokens
     • Semantically interpretable
   • Non symbolic view

4. Formal semantic approach

   • Describe
     • Meaning
       • Of language
     • Language
       • Precise way
       • Formal way
       • Unambiguos way
   • Namitations
     • Conditional semantics
       • How a sentence is true

5. Freges principle (compositionality)

   • Syntax is important
   • Connects
     • Chomskyan linguistics
       • Syntax driving force
         • In language
   • Explain
     • Semantic phenomena
       • By appeline
         • Biological
         • Psychological
         • Cultural issues
   • Doesn´t consider
     • logical structure
   • Meaning is
     • Function
       • Meaning of parts

6. Semiontics

   • Icon
     • Similarity between
       • Sings
       • What represent
   • Index
     • Cause - effect relation
   • Symbol
     • Sing meaning
       • Red flag - danger

7. Meaning communicate

   • Phonology
   • Morphology
     • Word structure
   • Lexical meaning
   • Syntax
     • Combination of words
   • Suprasegmentals

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