GROUP 8
--Rubio Anthony
--Rueda Alexander
--Sanchez Allison
--Silva Andrea
--Solis Melany
INTRODUCING ENGLISH SEMANTIC BY CHARLES W. KREIDLER
4. Demonstrating semantic knowledge
Language skills
Understand sentences
Use vocabulary
Recognize pronunciation
Communication
Make known to others
Intentions
Feelings
Thoughts
Infinite number of utterances
Knowledge of Words
Pronunciation
Vocabulary
Define words
Speaker’s knowledge of meanings
Contextual knowledge
No all words are defined
3. Language and the individual
Grammar
Three parts
semantics branch
Morphology
Word
formation works
Syntax
Form
phrases and sentences
Phonology
Sounds are organized
New communications
Understand
Produce
Humans depend their abilities to communicate
Language
Native language
Explicit
Conscious
Childs acquire roles
Hearer
Speaker
Productive vocabulary in childhood
Humans learn their own language in which it grows up
2. The nature of language
It is natural for humans to have language.
how meanings are communicated through language are not natural.
It is incredible to perceive how the human mind easily and frequently deals with what does not exist.
Example: A writer devises a fictional story with imaginary people doing imaginary things
Human language is
Produces new expressions.
Creative
Humans have the ability to talk about past experiences and future plans, which animals cannot do.
Human language is a single system different from all types of communication that there may be.
1. The systematic study of meaning
Linguistic semantics is the study of how languages organize and express meanings.
Semantics is the systematic study of meaning.
There are three disciplines that are responsible for the systematic study of “meaning”
Linguistics
It's concerned with
identifying the significant
elements of languages.
Seek to understand
how language works
Philosophy
It focus on
knowing how we
know meanings
Psychology
It's interested
in how the human mind
searches for meaning
Linguistic semantics deals with the knowledge of a language that allows them to communicate with each other.
