Unit 1

Unit 1

1. Hw 2

   • How can meaning be communicated
     • We had to read pages from a pdf about semantics, and from that make a graphic organizer with the information.
       • Icon: a relation of similarity between the sign and what it represents; for example, a portrait, etc. Index: a cause-effect relationship; contiguity in space or time; for example, smoke and fire.Symbol: an arbitrary, conventional relationship between sign and meaning: for example, red flag and danger.
   • Hw 3
     • Icon, Index, Symbol
       • In this Activity, we answered the exercises in the box on page 8 of the reading we were working before.
         • We had to look at some doodles and choose if they were Icons, Index or Symbols. Then we had to insert non-linguistics symbols in our culture. at least we had to find five examples of Icon, Index, Symbol.
           • Non-linguistics symbols means the ones that dont include language or anything to describe what is representing.
     • Hw 4
       • Hw 5
         • Semantics Evolution
           • Making a time line about the evolution of Semantics.
       • Reference, sense and denotation.
         • Read pages to summarize the information and then create a graphic organizer.
           • Reference: is the way speakers and hearers use an expression successfully. Denotation is the knowledge they have that makes their use successful. Sense relations: the meaning of any expression varies with context

2. Hw 1

   • What is Semantics?
     • In this activity, we had to explain the definition of semantics. First giving the definition of three authors, and then our definition.
       • My definition: From what I’ve been reading from the authors that I mentioned before, it has a lot to do with language and linguistic, in simple word is a study of the meaning, thanks to semantics we can have the meaning of many words and phrases
         • Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words