r.  udith lson
 


SEM

"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning." is a phrase of Thomas Carlyle's beginning Chapter 7.

Throughout the text of Applied Linguistics, the student studies sound patterns, morphological structure, and syntactic organization.

Chapter 7 begins a new area of learning for the apprentice linguist.  In Chapter 7, you learn that there is more to language than just form; there must be content as well to fulfill the communicative function.
 

Semantics is the study of meaning in the human language.
With structured study, we will learn the meaning of semantics before we finish this chapter of the text.


Dr. Judith Olson--BSL 365

On page 245 of our Applied Linguistics class' textbook, we learn that philosophers and other great thinkers of time past have pondered the questions that result from a study of semantics.  Some of the familiar names for us are Plato, Aristotle, and Bertrand Russell.  They and we consider semantics integral to philosophy, psychology and sociology, in addition to the discipline of linguistics.

Section 1.1 considers the semantic relations among words because these relationships help correlate and identify those aspects of meaning relevant to linguistic analysis.
 
Synonyms Antonyms Polysemes Homophones

(1.1) Some Aspects of Semantics


 
Table 7.1 on page 246 of text....       Some synonyms in English
youth
adolescent
automobile
car
remember
recall
purchase
buy
filbert
hazelnut
big
 large

Antonyms are words or phrases that are opposites with respect to some component of their meaning.

Antonym oppositional relationship.

Table 7.2 on page 246 of text....       Some antonyms in English
dark
light
girl
boy
hot
cold
up
down
in
out
come
 go

Check out this semantic link and this glossary.
Take a quiz to see what you know about synonyms and antonyms!

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