SEMANTICS IN LINGUISTICS

SEMANTICS IN LINGUISTICS

1. 1.Linguistic Abilities

   • There are three: -PHONOLOGY -SINTAX - SEMANTICS
     • Those help us to know how speech sounds are produce, also the structure and construction of the sentences , and words meaning.

2. 2. Semantics and Semiotics

   • semiotics is the study of the use of signs.
     • deeper explanation
       • signs
         • Arbitrary
           • Symbols
         • motivated
           • icons
             • images
             • metaphors
             • diagrams

3. Three Challenges Doing Semantics

   • 1. CIRCULARTITY:to understand the definition of a word's meaning, first one has to find the definition of the words meaning in the definition of the main word
   • 2.STATUS KNOWLEDGE:To learn the diferences between semantic knowledge and encyclopaedic knowledge.
   • CONTEXT: everybody perceives the world in different ways; for this, it is difficult to have only one interpretation for a specific definition.

4. Meeting the Chellenges

   • what means each challenge
     • CIRCULATORY: to describe the word in other languages to discover their meaning.
     • STATUS KNOWLEDGE:everybody has their own definition of the words and also they give a proper use without knowing their dictionary's meaning
     • CONTEXT:It has to deal with the role that plays the listener and his interpretation and inference of the message by means of pragmatics.