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Note by AdaNathalie Sanchez, updated more than 1 year ago
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TRADITIONAL SEMANTICSSemantics is the study of linguistic meaning.Lexical Semantics ( focus of the chapter)Sentence Semantics (chapter 10)Discourse Semantics (chapter 11)Word meanings are a matter of both social agreement and use. The assumption that there is one "true" meaning for a word is mistaken. Ignores of meaningful phonological features (i.e. strees and intonation), grammatical structure of the utterance, significance of the communicative context (pragmatics)The correspondence between a word and a thing is NOT simple and direct
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