SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

What is Semantic?

• the study of the meaning of words and sentences.

• the study of the grammar rules.

• the components of the phrase.

Which are the sub-categories of Semantic?

• Weak

  Soft

  Strong

• Formal

  Conceptual

  Lexical

• Simple

  Compound

it uses the relations of linguistic forms to non-linguistic concepts and mental representations to explain how sentences are understood by native speakers

• PRAGMATIC

• SYNTAX

• SEMANTIC

Formal semantics

• It focuses on establishing universal definitions for words

• is the study of grammatical meaning in natural language.

• It establishes meaning to words based on their relationships to other words

Conceptual semantics

• is the study of word meaning.

• It intends to define the meaning of words and phrases based on its grammatical structure.

• is the study of words at their core. It focuses on establishing universal definitions for words before they are taken into context.

Lexical semantics

• is the study of word meaning.

• is the study of sentences meaning.

• is the study of context meaning

It is an important branch of linguistics in the English language. It helps us look beyond the literal meaning of words and utterances and allows us to focus on how meaning is constructed in specific contexts

• Morphology

• Pragmatic

• Semantic

CONCEPTUAL ____________

It refers to the linguist function of the word, that provides its meanning.

e.g.

Money-Money: It's an object that allow people to buy goods

• DENOTATIVE

• CONNOTATIVE

What word does not belong to the pragmatic role?

• syntax

• grammar

• phonology

• semantics

• morphology

Rock - stone are the example of

• hyponymy

• synonymy

• polysemy

• homonymy