Semantics is a subfield of linguistics The storm is coming.

and it is the study of meaning of

words, phrases, and sentences. The
meaning in a language is a
multifaceted phenomenon. Discuss.
Different aspects of meaning are
studied differently and are governed
by different theories. To understand
what meaning in language is, there are
four aspects of meaning to be
considered. They are:
1) Information content
2) Cognitive and psychological
phenomenon
3) Social phenomenon
4) Important relationship among
meanings of words and sentences
The Information content of language
is the relationship between a word and
its reference or a sentence and the
situation it correctly describes. Its
reference can be both concrete things
and abstract ideas or concepts.
Abstract
I’m on top of the world.
I’m on cloud 9.
I feel butterflies in my stomach.
Making storm in a tea cup.
Concrete
Heal the world!
The clouds above the mountain
The butterfly museum.
Secondly, meanings are also things that are produced in the mind of the
speaker/hearer as she uses language.
Thirdly, to determine what our utterances mean, the relationships between the
speaker and hearer come into play. In other words, it is the appropriateness of
meaning in a situation known as pragmatics. (Example). The interaction of
pragmatics and semantics cannot really be separated in all cases.
Lastly, meanings of words and sentences have a variety of important relationships
among themselves. (Example)
To conclude, information content, cognitive meaning, and social (pragmatic)
meaning are complementary aspects of the general phenomenon of meaning
(semantics). The learners will not have fully understood the pheno