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    1) Semantics is the study of meaning in language. Meaning is understood through concepts associated with words that can vary between individuals based on context and extra-linguistic factors. 2) Conceptual meaning refers to the literal or core sense of a word without additional subtext, while a term's denotation is its dictionary definition. 3) Figurative language like metaphors, similes, and personification give words non-literal meanings. Rhetorical devices and semantic fields also influence how meaning is constructed and understood between speakers.

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    1) Semantics is the study of meaning in language. Meaning is understood through concepts associated with words that can vary between individuals based on context and extra-linguistic factors. 2) Conceptual meaning refers to the literal or core sense of a word without additional subtext, while a term's denotation is its dictionary definition. 3) Figurative language like metaphors, similes, and personification give words non-literal meanings. Rhetorical devices and semantic fields also influence how meaning is constructed and understood between speakers.

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    1) Semantics is the study of meaning in language. Meaning is understood through concepts associated with words that can vary between individuals based on context and extra-linguistic factors. 2) Conceptual meaning refers to the literal or core sense of a word without additional subtext, while a term's denotation is its dictionary definition. 3) Figurative language like metaphors, similes, and personification give words non-literal meanings. Rhetorical devices and semantic fields also influence how meaning is constructed and understood between speakers.

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    Unit 3

    The Nature of Meaning

    Semantics
    Part 1
    What is Semantic?

    Semantics is the study of meaning in language.

    How is meaning made??

    How is meaning understood???


    Think back…..
    - to linguistics structuralism, ( signified and signifier)
    - how society gives meaning to things and those things vary ( linguistic variation)
    - words have certain ideas associated with them and those associations vary from person to person.
    - the mental images conquered up by words is influenced by context, extra-linguistic factors i.e. age,
    gender, sociolect, etc..

    SO how on EARTH do we understand one another?


    The Concept and the Term

     Conceptual meaning is the literal or core sense of a word.


     There is nothing read into the term, no subtext; it's just the straightforward, literal, dictionary
    definition of the word.

     The term is also called denotation or cognitive meaning

    Examples: I saw red (the color) denotation, I saw red (mad) connotation
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3t2VPcHwCw
    Semantics

    Semantic fields Rhetorical Devices


    -Hyperbole
    -Litotes
    Figurative Language -rhetorical questions
    -metaphor -euphemisms
    -similes -dysphemism
    -personification
    -idioms synonyms, antonyms,
    polysemy,
    homonyms,
    Hypernyms and hyponyms
    Semantic Fields
     Words that share common semantic property or have a related meaning or fields of meaning.

     Ex. Water- bays, seas, oceans, lakes…..
     War- death, violence, hardship….

     Can you think of any semantic fields???


    Figurative Language

     Metaphor -a thing or idea regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.


     Ex. Raining cats and dogs, feeling blue…

     Similes-an expression comparing one thing with another, always including the words "as" or "like“
     Ex. He snores like a bear, she smells like roses…

     Personification- representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form


     Ex. My cellphone yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

     Idioms or idiomatic expressions - words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally.
     Ex. Spill the beans, calling the kettle black…
    Rhetorical Devices

     `A rhetorical device is a linguistic tool that employs a particular type of sentence structure,
    sound, or pattern of meaning in order to evoke a particular reaction from an audience

     `A technique or type of language used by a speaker/author to evoke a reaction from the


    listener/reader.`

     Can you think of any?


     Do you use them?
    Rhetorical Devices

     -Hyperbole -is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show
    emphasis.
     Ex. I am so tired I could sleep forever!

     -Litotes-ironic or an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of


    the contrary
     Ex. not the sharpest pencil in the box.

     -Rhetorical questions- a question not expecting an answer.


     Ex. Is the Pope catholic?
    -Hyperbole -is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to
    make a point or show emphasis.
    Ex. I am so tired I could sleep forever!
    Litotes-ironic or an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary

    Ex. not the sharpest pencil in the box.


    Rhetorical questions- a question not expecting an answer.

    Ex. Is the Pope catholic?


    Rhetorical Devices

     Euphemisms – a nice way to say something not nice, words or phrases used to talk about negative
    things without sounding too negative.
     Ex. She’s getting on. — She’s old. Passed away –died
     Can you think of any?

     -Dysphemism -opposite of euphemisms, substituting a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one.
     Ex. snail mail =mail sent by a postal service (as opposed to "email") or primitive
    = uncivilized (mostly used to describe non-Western people, culture and civilizations)
     After going thru this introductory ppt on semantics what can you say about meaning thus far?

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