SEMANTIC

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SEMANTIC

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Definition of Semantic

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Meaning

Dictionary definition

Many people feel that dictionary

definition of a word more accurately represents the word’s meaning, If a word’s meaning is its dictionary

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MEANING

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Mental image

Words often do seem to conjure up

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MEANING

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Meaning and References

One thing worth nothing is that

language is used to talk about things in the outside world, and many words seem to refer to actual objects or

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MEANING

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Meaning and truth

Who knows a sentence’s

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MEANING

Meaning and language use

By specifying the kind of practical situation which must exist in

order for a speaker to use

particular type of utterence (or speech act), may fact about the meaning associated with that

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Meaning relationship

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Synonymy

Synonymy involves two

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Meaning relationship

Homonymy

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Meaning relationship

Antonymy

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Meaning relationship

Entailment

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Semantic composition

How meaning are combined to

make larger units.

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SEMANTIC STRUCTURE

DEEP STRUCTURE

_{John met Bill on the corner.} _{John and Bill talked.}

_{Bill left.} _{John left.}

SURFACE STRUCTURE

John met Bill on the corner. They talked. Bill left.

Then jonh left.

John met Bill on the corner and they talked. Then Bill

left and John did too.

_{John met Bill on the corner. After they talked. Ball left}

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SEMANTIC STRUCTURE

_{SEMANTIC HIERARCHY}

Meaning component morpheme (root and affixes) Concept word

Complex concept

(concept cluster) phrase Proposition clause

Propositional sentence

Propositional cluster paragraph Semantic paragraph paragraph Episode section

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