Semantics & Discourse Analysis

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Language and the individual

System of sounds used to establish communication among a specific group of people.

Language is arranged in a logical order:

sounds, letters, words, phrases, sentences, and finally speech

Communication among human beings from the same:

culture, traditions, customs, and values

The nature of language

System of communication that in one way.

Another helps them understand each other.

Human beings transmit their thoughts, ideas, and feelings.

The systematic study of meaning

Three disciplines: Concerned with the systematic study of 'meaning' in itself:

Psychology: use it in a correct way

Philosophy: possible relationships that exist between facts.

Linguistics: language works between two people from different cultures.

Demonstrating semantic knowledge

Examples of what meaning is:

Anomalous or anomaly

Paraphrases, Synonymy, Contradictory

Antonymy, Semantic feature, Ambiguity

Adjacency pair, Entailment, Presuppositions

Specific language transmit:

ideas

feelings

emotions to people belonging to the same cultural group.

DEFINITION

SEMANTICS is the study of MEANING in LANGUAGE”

The significance of a specific text in a specific language.

The following categories: in systems of natural language processing

in selection restrictions,

in lexicon and grammar

On semantic invariant of the class of words with genitive subject.

CHARACTERISTICS

Study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in language.

Minimum of knowledge about a linguistic sign