Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning
Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning
S.Shafiee
2014 English Department, School of Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University
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Meaning
To understand language
the meaning of words and of the morphemes that compose them
Words into phrases and sentences Context which determines the meaning
(Pragmatics)
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What is Semantics?
The study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
Lexical semantics (words and meaning relationship among words)
Phrasal/ sentential semantics (syntactic units larger than a word)
What a speaker conventionally means
(objective or general meaning)- not what
he is trying to say (subjective or local
meaning)
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The meaning of Sentences (Sentential Semantics)
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We comprehend sentences because we know the meaning of individual words and we know the rules for combining their meanings." But just because a sentence is well formed and has a meaning doesn't necessarily make it true.
Ex: Linguistics class meets on Tuesdays. Linguistics class meets on Sundays.
Both have meaning, only the first is true. Knowledge outside of the semantics of the words is required to determine the truth value.
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TRUTH VALUE
Truth-conditional semantics knowing the truth value of sentences by considering the context or conditions
Compositional semantics Knowing the meaning of a sentences by putting the meaning of its components together
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Tautologies/analytic sentences can be recognized as true by virtue of linguistic knowledge alone. Circles are round. Dogs are animals.
Contradictions are always false. My single brother divorced his wife. Adults are children.
Paradoxes The barber shaves himself.
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Entailment
The elephant is pregnant. The elephant is female.
Paraphrase Sentences are PARAPHRASES if they have the same meaning (except possibly for minor differences in emphasis). Ex: I'll be glad to come./I'll be happy to come. (Lexical paraphrase)
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