Semantics

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UNIT 2
Semantics:
this is a logics and linguistics branch that is concerned with meaning
Sentence:
A group of words that conveys either a question, exclamation, statement, or command and entail key clauses and perhaps other subordinate clauses, and contains a base and subject.
Speaker: a person who speaks
Native speaker: a person who has spoken the questioned language as the first language in childhood
Knowing: this is the comprehension of terms and vocabularies of a given language
Linguistics: it is the study of language, its structure scientifically with study of phonetics, syntax and semantics all together
Language:
This is the system of communication that a given community or state or country employs
Components of language
Phonetics: these are the sounds, spectra and vocal tract
Orthography: this is the spelling of the words including the doubling of consonants, final e and final y
Phonological context: studies the indefinite, illogical, implausible and irregular
Syntax: it studies the order of the words grouped in attaining the desired meaning
Morphology: it studies affixes, the derivational, and inflectional in a sentence
Discourse: this is the anaphoric linkages transversely the sentences, rhetoric, the structure of the topic
Semantics: it studies the logistics and linguistics in attaining sentence meaning
Pragmatics: deals with things in a realistic and sensible approach basing on practicality rather than the rhetorics
Theory of semantics

QUESTION 2
I mean to be there tomorrow: this is reflective of a speaker meaning as it focuses on the speaker
A stalling may mean a tune-up: this sentence is a reflective of sentence because it talks about the action and not the object
Calligraphy means beautiful handwriting: this se...

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...tail everything that a typical native speaker knows about the meaning of the word. Inscribing incomplete entries is incomplete because the language keeps evolving.
QUESTION 7
The Evening star/ the Morning star: these are different expression with same referent
QUESTION 8
The President of the United States/ the commander-in-chief/ the Leader of the Republican party: the first two are expressions with same referent but the third expression is a variable referent.
QUESTION 9
Visiting relatives can be boring: this refers to the sense. It is merely a sense that visiting relatives might be boring. It is not definite, can change, and remains unpredictable.
QUESTION 10
The planet mars: this is a reference because it refers to the planets
QUESTION 11
Smoking grass can be dangerous: this is a sense because nobody has actually smoked the grass to ascertain the statement.

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