Introlinguistics

SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTICS

Semantics

In English the term semantic refleted meaning a point in a semantic presented by a member of the American Philological Association in 1894. In French M. Breal created the term semantique from Greek language and was publshed semantics “ studies in the science of meaning” in 1900. In French was published in 1987. In 1923, C.K. Ogden and I. A. Richard published “The Meaning of Meaning.

Semantics and Linguistics

1.         Semantics as a level of linguistics.

Semantic is a component or level of lingustic, the other level which consist of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax.

2.         Language  as communication system.

As communication, language is related with something to be communicated a message and something that communicates, a set of signs or symbol.

3.         Other communication system.

4.         A communicative system.

Semantics is empiral.

From requirement that is linguistics must be empirical, and also the semantics. It is easy to apply in method of speaking because it has verified by observation. Yet there is no simple way of dealing with semantics.

Semantics Concerning Generalization.

Linguistics as science is not concerned specific instances, but with generalization. Ferdinand de Saussure state the distiction between Language (language) and Speaking (parole). Noam Chomsky (1957) uses the terms competence and perfomance to refer to more or less the same point. The focus of the general study of semantics is on studying the normal pattern of semantics.

Speaker Meaning versus Word/Sentence Meaning

Speaker meaning is what a speaker means when he utters a piece of language. Word/Sentence meaning is what a word/sentence means. Sentences are not always give information at all, but the sentences can make various social relationships. The social relationships can be either courteous or hostile.

Semantic Theory

Semantics is an attempt to set up a theory to meaning. Hurford and Heasley (1984: 8) state that “A theory is a precisely specified, coherent, and economical frame-work of interdependent state-ments and definitions constructed so that as large a number as possible of particular basic facts can either be seen to follow from it or be describable in terms of it”.

Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), the Greek philosopher, can be regarded as a forerunner of modern semantics, because he was concerned with the same general areas that concern modern semanticists.


Take From : Prof. Soekemi.