Scribd
Upload
41 views5 pages

Overview of English Semantics

English semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. There are different kinds of semantics including discourse semantics, grammatical semantics, and lexical semantics. The development of semantics began with Aristotle's definition of words containing meaning. Later, scholars like Reisiq and Saussure further developed semantic theory. Semantics is related to other disciplines like philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, literature, and linguistics as it studies meaning in language and its relation to these fields.

Uploaded by

Checen Rakim
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
41 views5 pages

Overview of English Semantics

English semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. There are different kinds of semantics including discourse semantics, grammatical semantics, and lexical semantics. The development of semantics began with Aristotle's definition of words containing meaning. Later, scholars like Reisiq and Saussure further developed semantic theory. Semantics is related to other disciplines like philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, literature, and linguistics as it studies meaning in language and its relation to these fields.

Uploaded by

Checen Rakim
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

ENGLISH SEMANTICS

BY

Name : HASRIANA
[Link].0002

English Semantics

The Undestanding

Kinds

The Development

The Relation to other Dicipline

In Greece, Semainein means meaningfull. Sema (N) means symbol and Semaino (V) means to identify or give meaning. Semantics is a study of lingustic meaning (Katz, 1917 : 3).

Kinds of linguistics

Discourse; discourse semantics (meaning). Sentences are not analyzed separatedly, it should contain one unit of meaning.

Grammar; grammatical semantics. it analyzes both morphological and syntactical contexts.

Lexicon; lexical semantics. it analyzes the grammatical, morphological, syntactical and discourse context.

Phonologhy; it only differenciates meaning because it doesn't contain meaning.

The Development of Semantics

384 - 322 B.C; Aristoteles for the first time defined the meaning of word. he said "Word is the smallest lingustic unit containing meaning".

1820 - 1925; Reisiq proposed a new concept about grammar as follows : a. semasiology (study about symbol and sign; b. syntax (study about sentence); c. etimlogy (study about the derivation of a word.

1961; Ferdinand de Saussure published the different opinion on Semantic as follows : 1. historycal approach is left behind as linguistics is basiccaly focused on the presence of the language in the certain time. 2. attention to the structure in vocabulary is focused. 3. semantics is influenced by stylistic. 4. semantics study is bdirected to a certain language. 5. correlation between languge and thout is being studied. 6. semantics is separated from Philosophy.

The Correlation between Semantics and other Diciplines

Semantics and Philosophy; has a closed relation because there are certain meaning problems can be explained philosophycally, such expression meaning and proverb. The real word as the object of philosophy is the symbolic word represented in language.

Semantic and Psychology; Psychologist says that meaning is present because of stimulation. Sometimes. behaviouror action is associated in language.

Semantics and Anthropology/ Sociology; both Anthropology and Sociology cover the human being problems in society. But Sociology studies a larger group that relatively heterogeneus than in anthropology that homogeneus. In social and culture, there is heppened the development and change of language unit meaning.

Semantics and Literary; Language in literary has the form of idiosyncrotic individual expression of the writer. Implicitly, literal meaning unit represent languistic form used.

Semantics and Lingustics; Semantics studies about linguistics meaning.

You might also like