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THEORIES OF
LANGUAGE
Linguistics
Semiotics
Saussures Theory of Structuralism
Semantics
Transformational-generative
linguistic analysis of Chomsky
Semiotics
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Semantics
In Greek semantikos, which means
significant.
It is the study of the meaning of linguistic
signs that is, words, expressions, and
sentences.
Example: What is the meaning of (the word)
X?
The goal of semantics is to match the
meanings of signswhat they stand forwith
the process of assigning those meanings.
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACHES
A. Symbolic Logic
B. Speech-Act Semantics
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES
A. Descriptive Semantics
B. Theoretical Semantics
Linguists concerned with theoretical
semantics are looking for a general
theory of meaning in language.
To such linguists, known as
transformational-generative
grammarians, meaning is part of the
linguistic knowledge or competence
that all humans possess.
GENERAL SEMANTICS
The focus of general semantics is how
people evaluate words and how that
evaluation influences their behaviour.
Begun by the Polish American linguist
Alfred Korzybski and long associated
with the American semanticist and
politician S. I. Hayakawa, general
semantics has been used in efforts to
make people aware of dangers
inherent in treating words as more
Transformational-generative linguistic
analysis
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