Semantics is a brances of linguistics. Semantic and semantics is a study about meaning. From this course we can learn waht is meaning on language in writing or when we heard.
Semantic we can found in daily conversition everyday. Because in language so many expression. By the gesture or body language, action etc all that have a meaning. And semantic also knowledge of any speakers beacuse that speakers communicate fact, feellings, etc and then they imagination to understand what they communicate to him or her.
Semantic not only the study of linguistic but also related with the way other knowledge in the world such as philoshophers, psychologists,scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Have two type meaning on semantic, that is lexical meaning and grammatical meaning. Lexical meaning is the meaning of base of roots without any prefix and suffix. And the grammatical meaning is the meaning from the atructure or word from grammar.
And also bellow is different aspect of meaning as word as:
1. The logical or denotative meaning
2. The conotative meaning
3. The social meaning
4. The tematic meaning.
And in semantic have terms and distinctions:
1. Lexical and gramtical meaning
2. Sense and reference
That is explained earlier that sign refer to concepts as well as to other sign or symbol.
And also the sense relation include:
a. Homonymy
b. Synonymy
c. Polysemy
d. Antonymy
3. Sentence meaning and utterence meaning
4. Etailement and presupposition
And in the semantis have a theories of semantic
a. Traditional approach
b. Analytical / referential approach
c. Functional approach
d. Field theory of meaning.
