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semantics
semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a branch of linguistics; the abstract study of meaning in relation to language or symbolic logic systems is a branch... Read more
Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich 1926-67, Polish-American linguist, b. Vilnius, Poland (now in Lithuania), Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1951. Weinreich taught linguistics at Columbia (1951-67) and is noted for his contributions to Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics , dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of seman... Read more
mantra
mantra , in Hinduism and Buddhism, mystic words used in ritual and meditation. A mantra is believed to be the sound form of reality, having the power to bring into being the reality it represents. There are several types of mantras. Sanskrit verses used in the Vedic sacrifice are known as mantras. ... Read more
noun
noun [Lat.,=name], in English, part of speech of vast semantic range. It can be used to name a person, place, thing, idea, or time. It generally functions as subject, object, or indirect object of the verb in the sentence, and may be distinguished by a number of formal criteria. A noun may be rec... Read more
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski , 1902-, Polish-American mathematician and philosopher, Ph.D. Univ. of Warsaw, 1924. He lectured at Warsaw until 1939, emigrated to the United States, and then taught at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (1942-68). Tarski made extensive, basic contributions to the field of metamathemat... Read more
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap , 1891-1970, German-American philosopher. He taught philosophy at the Univ. of Vienna (1926-31) and at the German Univ. in Prague (1931-35). After going to the United States he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1936-52) and at the Univ. of California at Los Angeles (1954-62). Carnap was ... Read more
Korean
Korean language of uncertain ancestry. It is thought by some scholars to be akin to Japanese, by others to be a member of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ), and by still others to be unrelated to any known language. The Korean tongue is ... Read more
grammar
grammar description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology ); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called morphemes; and the arrangement of the morphemes into phrases and sentences, called syntax. School grammars for the speaker... Read more
linguistics
linguistics scientific study of language , covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar ), sounds ( phonology ), and meaning ( semantics ), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior. Phonetics , the study... Read more
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky , 1928-, educator and linguist, b. Philadelphia. Chomsky, who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955, developed a theory of transformational (sometimes called generative or transformational-generative) grammar that revolutionized the scientific study of langu... Read more

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semantics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship...symbolic logic systems is a branch of philosophy. Both are called semantics. The field of semantics has three basic concerns: the relations of words to the objects...
SEMANTICS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SEMANTICS The study of MEANING . The term has at...language are phonology, syntax, and semantics. (2) In philosophy, the study of...diachronic evolution. Post-Saussurean semantics is the study of meaning as a branch of...
Alfred Tarski
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of the founders of the discipline of semantics. Alfred Tarski was born in Warsaw on...formulation of the semantic method. Semantics is the study of the relations between...true sentence."' His early work in semantics, applying his method to logic and mathematics...
Rudolf Carnap
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...language extends beyond logical syntax and includes semantics, which deals with the reference of language...Thus Carnap initiated a series of studies in semantics: Introduction to Semantics (1942), Formalization of Logic (1943...
MEANING
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...SYMBOLS , and the like: ‘Semantics’ means ‘the study...Meaning of Meaning , the title of a book on SEMANTICS by C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards...is the meaning of the word ‘semantics’? 3. What a speaker or writer...
Jenny Holzer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...as Art Holzer's conception of language as art, in which semantics developed into her aesthetic, began to emerge in New York...Holzer to reach a larger audience. By combining a knowledge of semantics with modern advertising technologies, Holzer established...
Uriel Weinreich
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sociolinguistics , dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of semantics as a branch of linguistics. His dissertation (1951) on...older pronunciation had never disappeared. In his work in semantics Weinreich argued for a narrow rather than a broad concept...
Fuzzy Logic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management ...possibilities, the area between the digits 1 and 0, the semantics of analysis, and the grayer areas between true and false...fuzzy logic estimator (Fle), works with knowledge and semantics. A great deal of fuzzy logic depends on language and the...
LINGUISTICS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...and SYNTAX the composition of words and sentences; (3) SEMANTICS the study of meaning. Some linguists consider that morphology...others argue that phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics all constitute the grammar of a language. Each can be studied...
Political Correctness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...neologisms and euphemisms aimed at enfranchising such groups, the semantics of tolerance became the main butt of ridicule, notably...extended the scope of their attacks from the relative trivia of semantics to what they saw as a stultifying climate of hypocrisy and...

Dictionary entries related to "semantics"

semantics
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics , which studies the logical aspects of meaning...reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics , which studies word meanings and word relations...
algebraic semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing algebraic semantics A refinement of denotational semantics that stresses the algebraic structure on both syntactic...elements of some algebra , and the mapping from syntax to semantics is then a homomorphism . The syntax and semantics of expressions...
denotational semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing denotational semantics An approach to the semantics of programming languages in which the meaning of a program...semantic theory that was more abstract than operational semantics . It is less abstract than axiomatic semantics .
operational semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing operational semantics An approach to the semantics of programming languages that uses the concept of an “abstract...used to define PL/I, which was the first method for defining the semantics of a programming language.
situation semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing situation semantics An approach to natural-language semantics built upon the ontological framework of situation theory...or listener individuates or discriminates. Situation semantics attempts to capture the meaning of an utterance by constructing...
axiomatic semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing axiomatic semantics An approach to defining the semantics of programming languages in which the meaning of a language...that Hoare logic could also be viewed as an axiomatic semantics for a very simple programming language, namely the while...
transformational semantics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing transformational semantics See program transformation .
program correctness proof
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...formal mathematical demonstration that the semantics of a program are consistent with some...must be some formal definition of the semantics of the programming language. Such a...form of a set of axioms to cover the semantics of any simple statement in the language...
equational specification
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...the equations using initial-algebra semantics. Let A be an algebra of signature...x3A3;, E ), under initial-algebra semantics, if E is a set of equations over...four equations, and initial-algebra semantics. The general definition is as follows...
Language, Philosophy of: Modern
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...mathematical logic. Logical Syntax and Semantics Well into the nineteenth century, Aristotelian...tripartite distinction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Syntax concerns the...formed sentences within the language while semantics gives us a theory of the meanings of...

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GENERAL SEMANTICS: A COMPENDIUM OF DEFINITIONS
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GENERAL SEMANTICS ON THE INTERNET.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...for references to Korzybski and general semantics, I stumbled upon this link: [less...With Language, using several general semantics formulations and tools. The slide...included several links related to general semantics which I've found meaningful, educational...
A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed.(Review)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Robert P. Pula. A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed...CA: International Society for General Semantics, 2000. In the fall of 1990, Bob Pula, famous among general semantics cognoscenti for his educational, editorial...
A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Robert P. Pula. A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed...CA: International Society for General Semantics, 2000. In the fall of 1990, Bob Pula, famous among general semantics cognoscenti for his educational, editorial...
A SIMPLE DEFINITION OF GENERAL SEMANTICS
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...perhaps for all of its life, general semantics has suffered from an identity crisis...difficulty defining the term general semantics for others. Of those people who have...leading to a hazy image of general semantics and a difficulty in categorizing it in...
SAXoTECH and Applied Semantics partner to enhance Publicus online publishing system; Partnership to deliver advanced content processing capabilities to newspapers; Sign Concord Monitor as customer.
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A simple definition of general semantics.(Definition)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (1) The term, 'semantic reaction...Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (2) FOR A NUMBER OF DECADES and perhaps for all of its life, general semantics has suffered from an identity crisis...