Semantic competence

Semantic competence

1. Grammatical semantics

   • Deals with the meaning of grammatical elements, categories, structures and processes

2. Deals with the learner’s awareness and control of the organisation of meaning.

3. Lexical semantics

   • Relation of word to general context:
     • • reference • connotation • exponence of general specific notions
   • Interlexical relations, such as:
     • • synonymy/antonymy • hyponymy • collocation • part-whole relations • componential analysis • translation equivalence

4. Pragmatic semantics

   • Deals with logical relations such as entailment, presupposition, implicature, etc.