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the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

There are a
number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal
semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as
sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics,
which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual
semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.

EXPLANATION

Seamntics is the study of meaning in language. meaning is the focus of


the field of linguistics and logic. Semantics has many branches and
subbranches, such as formal semantics, which examines the logical
components of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and
logical form; lexical semantics, which examines the semantics of
words and their relationships; and conceptual semantics, which
examines the cognitive structure of meaning.

Semantics is the study and analysis of how language is used


figuratively and literally to produce meaning. Semantics seeks to
describe how words are used-not to prescribe how they should be used.
Examples of Semantics: A toy block could be called a block, a cube, a
toy. A child could be called a child, kid, boy, girl, son, daughter.

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Formal Semantics - Formal semantics is an approach to semantics, the


study of meaning, with roots in logic, the philosophy of language, and
linguistics 1. The word formal in “formal semantics” is opposed to
informal and reflects the influence of logic and mathematics in the rise
of scientific approaches to philosophy and to linguistics in the
twentieth century 1.

Other explanation:

In other words, formal semantics is a way of studying meaning that


uses formal tools from logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer
science to analyze the grammatical meaning of natural languages. It is
an interdisciplinary field that is sometimes regarded as a subfield of
both linguistics and philosophy of language.

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Lexical Semantics - Lexical semantics is a subfield of linguistic


semantics that deals with the study of word meanings 1. It focuses on
the internal semantic structure of words and the semantic relations
that occur within the vocabulary 2. The study of lexical semantics
involves the classification and decomposition of lexical items, the
differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure cross-
linguistically, and the relationship of lexical meaning to sentence
meaning and syntax 3.

The units of analysis in lexical semantics are lexical units, which


include not only words but also sub-words or sub-units such as affixes
and even compound words and phrases 3. Lexical units include the
catalogue of words in a language, the lexicon. Lexical semantics looks
at how the meaning of the lexical units correlates with the structure of
the language or syntax. This is referred to as syntax-semantics
interface 3.

Conceptual Semantics - Conceptual semantics is a framework for


semantic analysis developed by Ray Jackendoff in 19761. It aims to
provide a characterization of the conceptual elements by which a
person understands words and sentences, and thus to provide an
explanatory semantic representation1. Conceptual semantics
distinguishes a single, universal meaning to a word, instead of having a
lexical semantic meaning in addition to the conceptual representation
of the actual referent1. The framework is considered not just a
linguistic theory, but also a theory on human cognition1.

In semantics, conceptual meaning is the literal or core sense of a


word2. It is the straightforward, literal, dictionary definition of the word
and is also called denotation or cognitive meaning2.

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