SEMANTICS

SEMANTICS

Semantics is the study of linguistics meaning of morphomes,words,phrases,and sentence.

There are three subfield of semantics:

1)Lexical semantics

Lexical semantics is concerned with the meaning of words,and the meaning about relationships among words.

2)Phrasal and sentential semantics

Is concerned with the meaning of syntactic units larger than the word.

3)Pragmatics

Is the study of how context and situation affect meaning.

MEANING

Conceptual meaning; conseptual meaning covers those basic,essential component meaning that are convoyed by the literal use of word.

Associative meaning; is the type of meaning that people might connect with the use of words.

                TRUTH-CONDITIONAL SEMANTICS

Truth-conditioanal semantics is a theory of meaning that takes semantics knowledge of knowing when sentence true or false as basic.it is the study of conditions under which a statement can be judged true or false.It is also called compositional semantics because it calculates the truth value of sentence by composing, or putting together, the meaning of smaller units.

There are two categories truth condition in semantics:

1)The study of different types of  truth embodied in individual sentence.

a)       Tountologies (analytic sentence)

b)      Contradictions

c)       Synthetic sentence

2)The study of different types of truth relatiaons that hold between sentence.

a)       a)Entailment

b)      b)Contradictory sentence