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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.