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Understanding Semantic Meaning in Language

The document discusses the importance of semantics, which is the study of meaning in language, including how words and phrases derive their meaning. It highlights Gottlob Frege's theory, which distinguishes between sense and reference, and outlines different types of meanings: linguistic, social, and affective. Each type of meaning contributes to our understanding of language and communication.

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Understanding Semantic Meaning in Language

The document discusses the importance of semantics, which is the study of meaning in language, including how words and phrases derive their meaning. It highlights Gottlob Frege's theory, which distinguishes between sense and reference, and outlines different types of meanings: linguistic, social, and affective. Each type of meaning contributes to our understanding of language and communication.

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Ximena Medina Juárez

SEMANTICS

IMPORTANCE WHAT IS IT? GOTTLOB


FREGE
The study of semantics is The study of meaning in language,,
essential to understand including how words and phrases get Frege's theory of meaning is based
their meaning, and how the meaning of
how language works and on the distinction between sense
a sentence is determined by its parts.
why we use it. and reference.

SENSE REFERENCE
SEMANTIC MEANING

The meaning and The sense of a term


The message is the middle layer Reference is the
interpretation of
conveyed by words, of meaning that is relationship
words, signs, and
sentences, and connected to the between a linguistic
sentence structure.
Semantics largely
symbols in a sign, such as a expression and the
determine our context. Also called name, letter, or thing it represents.
reading lexical meaning or combination of
comprehension. semantic meaning. words.

LINGUISTIC
MEANING SOCIAL MEANING AFFECTIVE MEANING
It refers to the emotional or evaluative
Literal or semantic meaning of a word, The term social meaning identifies the constellation
implications of words or phrases. It's a way to
phrase or sentence, based on its structure of traits that linguistic forms convey about the social
identity of their users—for example, their
express the speaker's personal feelings or
and the dictionary definitions of its attitudes towards the listener or the subject
components. demographics, personality and ideological orientation.
matter.

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