Semantics is the study of meaning in language. Meaning is a much less tangible notion than those
introduces in the above chapters on phonology, morphology and syntax
Meaning
is the relation between the images, what we
know, the mental representation and the
word or symbol we give it
Semantics and pragmatics
pragmatics is the study of the aspects of
meaning and language that depend in the
speaker speech or context
Phonetics
studies the physical side
of linguistic utterance, the
articulation and perception
of speech sounds
Phonology
is the study
of sound
patterns of
human
language
which can
change when
we have a
language
given
Morphology
is the study of a word and
how every single part that
integrates it and how them
can change its meaning
Syntax
is the study of the formation
of sentences
Philosophical semantics looks at the relations between linguistic expressions and the
phenomena in the nonlinguistic world to which they refer and examines the conditions
under which they are true or false.