ARTICLE REVIEW 3: Semantics and Theories of Semantics



PEACE BE UPON YOU everyone in the world! How is your life today? I hope you are okay. Well, actually I have four assignments from my lecturer that is about written review article of anything about Semantics. Can be journal, thesis, etc. For the references, we must get from the site: academia.edu or googleschoolar.com So, I have four journals that I got from academia.edu. For in this occasion I want to share to you all one by one and for the others you can see on my next post. Okay, let’s check it out ya!!

Title: Semantics and Theories of Semantics
Compiled by Gh: Abbas Bukhari (solitary110@gmail.com)
Upload file by Zain. He is author. And I don’t know much about him.
This journal has 15 pages. Nothing abstract or introduction. Straight to the content. I think he just get the file from his friend or another one. I don’t really know. I’ll share to you some theories in it. Here you are.

Semantics and theories of semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning in language. We know that language is use express meanings which can be understood by others. But meanings exist in our minds and we can express what is in our mind through the spoken and written form language (as well as through gestures, action, etc).

Difficulties in study of meaning.
The problem of ‘meaning’ is quite difficult; it is because of its toughness that some linguists went on to the extent of excluding semantics from linguistics. A well known structuralist made the astonishing statement that ‘linguistic system of a language does not include the semantics’. For example, difficulties may arise in finding out the essential meaning of the word ‘table in water table’, ‘dining table’, ‘table amendment’, and ‘table of 9’. Main difficulties is to account facts about essential meanings, multiple meanings, and word conditions.

What is meaning?
Meaning can be any of the following:
a.      An intrinsic property of some thing
b.      Other words related to that word in a dictionary
c.       The connotations of a word
d.      The thing to which the speaker of that word refers
e.      The thing to which the speaker of that word should be refer, the word believes himself to be referring, the word believes is being referred to.

Some terms and distinctions in semantics
a.      Lexical and grammatical meaning
b.      The bank of a river.
c.       Sense and reference
d.      Sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning
e.      Entailment and presupposition

Theories of semantics
a.      Traditional approach
b.      Analytical/referential approach
c.       Functional approach
d.      Field theory of meaning

Well everyone, actually there are some explanation about it, but I just wrote the main points. You can see the original file below. Also you can download it.

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxtSYsxN1qGIN0R4R2Q3TngyVWc


My comments of this journal:
First, this journal have strength and weakness. For the strength like so many theories on it. But there is no references. So I don’t know the written by who is.

Thank you for reading this article review. See you on my next posting...^^

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