SEMANTICS

SEMANTICS

1. The study of MEANING in LANGUAGE.

   • English, has a number of different dialects.
     • so there are also differences in the basic semantic facts from one dialect of English to another.

2. is

3. Basic notions in semantics

   • Propositions
     • The way you feel
       • can be true
       • can be false
     • Describe
       • actions
       • states of affairs
         • Person
           • Expressions
         • Things
     • Correspond to facts
   • SENTENCE
     • written part
     • composed by abstract ideas
       • words and phrases with complete thought
     • can be true or false
     • grammatical rules
       • in a particular language
   • utterance
     • oral part
       • the natural way to speak
       • physical
       • accent and voice quality
     • use
       • in a particular occasion
       • a single phase
       • a single word
     • there are pauses before and after of each phrase

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