Semantics: Intro to Linguistics [video 8]

Semantics is the study of meaning. How do we know what words mean? And how do we interpret what they mean when they are in a sentence? The field of semantics can help us think about these questions.
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I watched a lot of videos about semantics and yours was really helpful ! Thank you!

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Thank you so much for the comment! I appreciate the kind words, and good luck on your MA! 😊

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Thank you so much .it was profoundly explained and extremely helpful.however ,I would like to know more about composional semantics and its four major areas in details ( anomaly,idiom,metaphor and ambiguity ) .please and thank you in advance .

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Thank you! Glad I could help :) Linguistics is really a fascinating field once you learn a little bit about it.

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I think for me the logical distinction between a sword and a knife is a way of holding it and the corresponding movements. Fun fact: in Russian it's not a lightsaber, it's a lightsword

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love the tiger king ref! lol

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did you ever make a video on pragmatics?

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[@Ronodentron]

Great Videos, but one thing i noticed: If a word is spelled an pronounced in the same way, but both of these words have different meanings, it is called a "homophone" like date (in a calender) and date (the fruit from the date-tree) :)

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[@Widmowiec]

I really appreciate your work here. There is however one thing that struck me: your understanding of signifier as a physical entity (spoken word / written word or gesture) seems to me a bit of a simplification. In fact, signifier and signified are both purely conceptual: this is evident once you observe that there is no relation between the acoustic signal, the set of graphemes and the gesture coding the same word (concept). That's why I'd rather consider spoken word, written word or gesture as "physical realization of the signifier" or simply "stimulus" rather than the signifier itself. I basically refer to the tetradic sign model as proposed by a Belgian linguist Jean-Marie Klinkenberg. Best regards

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Sir, I need your help. I don't quite understand the different usage of applying semantics in analyzing figurative language and pragmatics in analyzing figurative language. Would you mind to explain it to me? Thanks in advance, sir.

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Thanks!

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[@alinahakeem5209]

Besides the book “ The language instinct “ by Steven Pinker, what other books would you recommend for learning about linguistics?

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One of the ones I usually recommend is “The art of language invention”. Very interesting.

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Thank youu

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Podrías poner las referencias que usaste, por favor? Gracias por crear este tipo de contenido 👍🏼

[@FingtamLanguages]

Hola :) El libro mas importante que usé para hacer este video se llama The Study of Language (de George Yule).

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chuckled a bit at that Tiger king reference X"D

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Lol that’s why I put them in there! 🤣

[@winnmarr6840]

how would you read the morpheme 'sord' compared to sword.?

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8:20 Is this the reason why Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the name for the fear of long words?

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Gracias a ti :)

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Hello sir, I am searching your lecture on pragmatics but it is not here. Please send me the link.

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Hey can you help me to interpret the meaning of colorless green ideas sleep furiously!?

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The sentence has good syntactic structure, but it doesn't make any sense!

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This is not a pipe. This is not a sword. Nice.

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clear

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Do a Thai update video!

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Great suggestion! I should do one soon :)

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What is the semasiology??

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hi, explaine and commente the quote : no two words ever have exactly the same meaning.Fromkin et al. (2003:181)

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I have homework but I don’t know how to write it :(

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