Part of the structure of language, along with phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, which involves understanding the meaning of words, sentences, and texts
Semantic is used to describe things that deal with the meanings of words and sentences. He did not want to enter into a semantic debate. relating to the meanings of words (semantikos , from semainein , from sema )
General, relating to meaning or signification In Semiotics, semantic means more narrowly, concerned with the relationship between the signs and the objects
The relationship between words or symbols and their intended meanings Semantic rules apply to spoken and written languages as well as programming languages See also syntax
The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language of relations between sentences such as sameness in meaning, semantic consequences (i e that if one sentence is true, such and so others must be true), and relationships between sentences and the world (truth) Characterizations of meaning and menaingfulness come under this heading See pragmatics and syntactics
the branch of linguistics which studies meaning in language One can distinguish between the study of the meanings of words (lexical semantics) and the study of how the meanings of larger constituents come about (structural semantics)
In computer languages, the semantics are specified by the actions taken for each instance of the language, i e , the meaning of each statement See section Defining Language Semantics
in the study of language, semantics is concerned with the meaning of words, expressions and sentences, often in relation to reference and truth Semantics is contrasted with syntax (the study of logical or grammatical form) and pragmatics (the study of the contribution of contextual factors to the meaning of what language users say) Meta-semantic theories study key semantic notions such as meaning and truth and how these notions are related
Part of the structure of language, along with phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, which involves understanding the meaning of words, sentences, and texts
The meaning associated with a set of symbols in a given language, which is determined by the syntactic structure of the symbols, as well as knowledge captured in an interpretative model See also: Syntax
The form semantic is used as a modifier. Semantics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the meanings of words and sentences. Study of meaning, one of the major areas of linguistic study (see linguistics). Linguists have approached it in a variety of ways. Members of the school of interpretive semantics study the structures of language independent of their conditions of use. In contrast, the advocates of generative semantics insist that the meaning of sentences is a function of their use. Still another group maintains that semantics will not advance until theorists take into account the psychological questions of how people form concepts and how these relate to word meanings
Theory of meaning; study of the signification of signs or symbols, as opposed to their formal relations (syntactics) Recommended Reading: , ed by Shalom Lappin (Blackwell, 1997) {at Amazon com}; Gennaro Chierchia and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics (MIT, 2000) {at Amazon com}; F R Palmer, Semantics (Cambridge, 1981) {at Amazon com}; The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method, ed by Richard M Rorty (Chicago, 1992) {at Amazon com}; Robert C Stalnaker, Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought (Oxford, 1999) {at Amazon com}; and Henriette De Swart, Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (C S L I, 1998) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP on semantics and its philosophical relevance, OCDL on semantics, formal semantics, and pragmatics, Ned Block, DPM, Andrew Carpenter, ColE, BGHT, noesis, and MacE