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
semiotic dealing with the relations between signs and what they refer to and including theories of
denotation,
extension, naming, and truth
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3a : the meaning or relationship of meanings of a
sign or set of signs;
especially : 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 meaning
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. 1998
- Over
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.
references http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semantics
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