se·man·tics 

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Definition of semantics
1: the study of meanings:

a: the historical and psychological study and the classification of

changes in the signification of words or forms viewed as factors

in linguistic development

b(1): SEMIOTICS

(2): a branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between

signs and what they refer to and including theories

of denotation, extension, naming, and truth

2: GENERAL SEMANTICS

3a: the meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign or set of

signsespecially  : connotative meaning

b: the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda)

to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through

the use of words with novel or dual meanings

Examples of semantics in a Sentence

More than semantics is at stake. In the case of obesity, the

debate has heightened in the wake of major diet-pill recalls last

year. Many new diet nostrums are in various stages of testing,

and the FDA's bar for approving new drugs is lower for disease

treatments than for other problems, such as baldness or skin

wrinkles.— Laura Johannes et al.,  Wall Street Journal,  9 Feb. 1998Over

the years Wierzbicka has gained a distinct reputation for playing

hardball with others in the linguistics community. Though her

rhetoric can be rather scathing at times, there is no question

that her studies in semantics are a force to be reckoned with. —

Joseph Hilferty,  Word,  April 1997

Definisi dari Oxford Languages · Pelajari lebih lanjut se-man-tics /sə'man(t)iks/ noun the anch 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.
the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text. ural noun: semantics uch quibbling over
semantics may seem petty stuff"
1. SEMANTICS OF PREFERENCES

Semantic preference is a phenomenon of the tendency of a word to collocate with other words
in a high frequency and generally occurs with a positive or negatively charged lexical set. For
example, the word happen in English has a negative preference semantic because it generally
always collocates with words that have a negative meaning field, such as happen accident.
Another example, consider the table below:
The thing to note is

Preference semantics is highly dependent on the context of what register or domain is being
used. The same word with different registers may produce different preference semantics, for
example, register A is positively charged and register B is negatively charged.

Preference semantics has to do with colligation. For example, the sheer of (noun phrase) is
always related to size, weight, or volume. It should also be noted that word class also affects
semantic preferences, for example the verb erupt is related to human phenomena, while the
noun erupt is related to geological phenomena.

Truth-conditional semantics is an approach to semantics of natural language that

sees meaning (or at least the meaning of assertions) as being the same as, or reducible
to, their truth conditions. This approach to semantics is principally associated
with Donald Davidson, and attempts to carry out for the semantics of natural language
what Tarski's semantic theory of truth achieves for the semantics of logic.[1]

Truth-conditional theories of semantics attempt to define the meaning of a given

proposition by explaining when the sentence is true. So, for example, because 'snow is
white' is true if and only if snow is white, the meaning of 'snow is white' is snow is
white.