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Semantic Function in the light of Linguistics

Methodology
Dr. Sami Awad*
Hinde Akramah **
(Received 20 / 3 / 2006. Accepted 18/5/2006)

ABSTRACT

This Research deals with the "Semantic Function" of languages being the most
important communication and understanding means among the people. It distinguishes
between the study of the languages as a system of random traditional phonetic symbols and
Semiology as a science that studies symbols, linguistic and non-linguistic symptoms, of
which Linguistics is a branch.
The research also shows the figures of the meaning in its simplicity and
multiplicity, clarity and ambiguity, stability and changeability, as well as the ability of
language in all these cases to perform its function easily and simply. It shows that
exhibiting the "semantic meaning" is to look into the mutual relation between the signifier
and the signified through the language systems (phonetic, morphological and syntactic),
considering each of them one of the branches for searching for meaning, in addition to the
data of the dictionary and position. The other symbols, whose indication cannot be
revealed through the linguistic system, are studied by General Semiology and its other
branches.
Speech activity with its full meaning does not consist of vocabulary alone, but of
speaking events and pronunciation extensions forming sentences whose features are
determined by pauses, holds or the like. The linguistic semantics does not hold at the
meanings of the single words, but moves to the study of the sentence meaning, and to
every linguistic form having a meaning, i.e. the linguist has to explain how each language
analyzes man's experience into units that bear the meaning.
Key words: Semantic meaning, Syntactic meaning, Context.

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Professor, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Tishreen University, Lattakia,
Syria.
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Postgraduate Student, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Tishreen University,
Lattakia, Syria.

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