Semantics

Research Paper # 75422

English
Linguistics

Semantics

A study of the use of semantics in the English language.

1,257 words () | 2 sources | MLA | 2006 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses a variety of topics entailed within the study of semantics and explains how each idea contributes to the broad study of semantics. It also shows how the language has developed and how it continues to evolve.

From the Paper:

"According to encyclopedia.com, semantics is the study of the relationship between words and their meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a branch of linguistics; the abstract study of meaning in relation to language or symbolic logic systems is a branch of philosophy. Both of these branches of study make up what we call semantics. The field of semantics has three basic concerns: the relations of words to the objects denoted by them, the relations of words to the interpreters of them, and, in symbolic logic, the formal relations of signs to one another. ".