S E M A N T I C S

1. Is a part of a speaker’s (listener’s) linguistic knowledge

2. Has two main categories

2.1. Phrasal semantics

2.1.1. Concerns the meaning of syntactic units, which are larger than words

2.2. Lexical semantics

2.2.1. Concerns the meanings of words and the meaning of relationships among words

3. Studies the literal meaning

4. Used to designate the science of word meaning

5. Semantic field

5.1. Is a set of words grouped by the meaning

6. Focuses on three basic aspects

6.1. The relations of words to the objects denoted by them

6.2. The relations of words to the interpreters of them

6.3. The formal relations of signs to one another (syntax)”

7. What a speaker conventionally means (objective or general meaning) not what speaker is trying to say (subjective or local meaning