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semantics is a study of language and its meaning. As a word,
semantics was first used by Michel Breal, a french
philologist in 1883, and can be used to describe how words
can have different meanings for different people, due to
their experiential and emotional backgrounds.
semantics is a branch of linguistics that deals with the
study of meaning, changes in meaning and the
principles that govern the relationship between
sentences or words and their meanings.
 Naming.

naming is relates words and things directly.

 Concepts.

concepts is relates word and things indirectly, but through of reference.

 Reference.

reference deals with the relationship between the linguistics element( word, sentence, etc)
and the non-linguistics world of experience or referent.

 Sense

sense relates to the complex system of relationship that hold between the linguistics elements
themselves: it is concerned only with linguistics item.
 The word.
dictionaries appear to concern with seating the meaning of words and it is
reasonable to assume that the word is one of the basic units of semantics
 Sentence.
the traditional definition of sentence is “ the expression of a complete
thought” the sentence is essentially a grammatical unit; indeed is the
function of syntax to describe the structure of the sentence and thereby to
define it.
 semantics the area of linguistics study that concerns itself with the study of meaning is a complex
aspect in language study.

1.traditional semantic is the study of word meaning

constitutes the more traditional approach to semantics which can be traced back to Aristotle and
assume that it is possible to categories words ( or concepts).

2.structural semantics is the study of relationship between the meaning of terms within a sentence and
how meaning can be composed from smaller elements.

3.generative semantics is description of a language emphasizing a semantics deep structure that is

logical in from, that provide syntactic structure, and that is related to surface structure by
transformation.