Semantics in English Presentation Sense.pptx

Semantics In English

1. SENSE Group 5

2. What is Sense? Sense does not take care of objects in the real world. Sense deals with the relationships inside the language.

3. Consider this extract from Wiktionary’s entry on plane: 1. An airplane; an aeroplane 2. A level or flat surface 3. A level of existence or development.

4. Sense deals with intra-linguistic relationships “semantic relationships” — One of the semantic relationship is “sameness of meaning in words, phrases or sentences” more than one word can have the same sense.

5. The sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expressions in the language.

6. Example: A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface used to sit on. Referent Chair

7. Sense refers to how we see an object or the amount of information given about an object.

8. Rule: Every expression that has meaning has sense, but NOT every expression has reference.