Semantics is the study of meaning in languages. It is a systematic inquiry that examines what linguistic meaning is and how it … See more

Semantics studies meaning in language, which is limited to the meaning of linguistic expressions. It concerns how signs are interpreted and what information they contain. An example is the meaning of words provi… See more

Lexical semantics is the sub-field of semantics that studies word meaning. It examines semantic aspects of individual words and the vocabulary as a whole. This includes the study of lexical relations between w… See more

Theories of meaning explain what meaning is, what meaning an expression has, and how the relation between expression and meaning is established.
Referential theories state that the meaning of an expre… See more

Semantics was established as an independent field of inquiry in the 19th century but the study of semantic phenomena began as early as the ancient period as part of philosophy and logic. In ancient Gre… See more

Logicians study correct reasoning and often develop formal languages to express arguments and assess their correctness. One part of this process is to provide a semantics for a formal language to precisely d… See more