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Semantics

The relationship between words and their referents is called semantic. Semantics is the
study of how meaning is conveyed through signs and language. Understanding
how facial expressions, body language, and tone affect meaning, and how words,
phrases, sentences, and punctuation relate to meaning are examples. Various subgroups
of semantics are studied within the fields of linguistics, logic and computing. For
example, linguistic semantics includes the history of how words have been used in the
past; logical semantics includes how people mean and refer in terms of likely intent and
assumptions. Semantics, then, is the study of meaning

Meaning

A piece of language conveys its dictionary meaning, connotations beyond the dictionary
meaning, information about the social context of language use, speaker’s feelings and
attitudes rubbing off of one meaning on the another meaning of the same word when it
has two meanings and meaning because of habit occurrence.

Meaning in Linguistics In the use of language for communication, meaning is what the
‘sender’ of the message expresses or tries to express to the ‘receiver’. The receiver in its
turn infers or derives the meaning from the corresponding context.
Through language, we can express ideas, and we assume in most cases that the receiving
party understands what we want to express. He or she understands the meaning of

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