Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning in language, more specifically the meaning of words, sentences and even larger elements.
- Word Semantics
deals with the analysis of word meanings. - Sentence Semantics
studies the meanings of sentences and how they derive from the meanings of their component parts.
This diagram is known as the semiotic triangle. It exhibits the relationship between linguistic units (e.g. words) and objects in the real world. |
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