SEMANTICS

1.  Define Semantics in linguistics (Don't forget to quote authors and also to use your voice).

Semantics is a branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of a word or sentence in a language and the relationship between them ,it studies how the meanings are constructed, changed and interpreted by speakers and listeners of a particular language.

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/semantics.htm

2. Concepts:

*MEANING:is still whit us, carryng along a bewildering diversity of applications from centuries of general usage.

*CONCEPT: is spoken of as an entity within one’s head, a private entity, a product of the imagination that can be conveyed to others only by means of language.

*REFERENT: A referent is the concrete object or concept that is designated by a word or expression. A referent is an object, action, state, relationship, or attribute in the referential realm.

*GRAMMATICAL MEANING: the meaning expressed by an inflectional ending or some other grammatical device, as word order.  the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form

*LEXICAL MEANING: the meaning of a word in relation to the physical world or to abstract concepts, without reference to any sentence in which the word may occur.

*DENOTATIVE: able to denote; designative

*CONNOTATIVE: An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing

*METAPHOR: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles"or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).

*POLYSEMY: the existence of several meanings in a single word.

*CONTEXT:  The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning