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MEETING 1
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Answer these questions!

1. What is the definition of linguistic ?
2. What is the definition of pragmatic and semantic?
3. What are the differences of semantic and pragmatic ?
4. Mention 7 aspects of semantic knowledge!
5. Mention 10 technical terms!

1. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It involves analysing language form,

language meaning, and language in context, and concerned with identifying with
the meaningfull elements of specific langauge
2. Semantics is the systematic study of meaning that is used to understand
human expression through language.
Pragmatics: another branch of linguistics that is concerned with meaning,
but speakers also know how to use this knowledge when they listen and read, when
they speak and write – when they communicate (particular acts of communication).
The study of how words and phrases are used with special meanings in particular
situations.
3. Semantics: Mainly concerned with a speaker’s competence to use the language
system in producing meaningful utterances and processing (comprehending)
utterances produced by others.
Pragmatic. a person’s ability to derive meanings from specific kinds of speech
situations –to recognize what the speaker is referring to, to relate new
information, to interpret, to infer.
4. aspects of semantic knowledge:
- Meaningful in English
- Speakers generally agree when two words have essentially the same
meaning –in a given context
- Speakers recognize when the meaning of one sentence contradicts
another sentence
- Speakers generally agree when two words have opposite meanings in a
given context
- Some sentences have double meanings; they can be interpreted in two
ways
- Speakers are aware that two statements may be related in such a way
that if one is true, the other must also be true.
5. Technical terms
- anomaly,
- paraphrase,
- synonimy,
- semantic feature,
- antonimy,
- contradiction,
- ambiguity,
- adjacency pairs,
- entailment,
- and presupposition.