《语言学与翻译》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿，Part 1）Unit 2 Semantics

Unit Two Semantics OO0

Unit Two Semantics

Warm-up questions what flower does everybody have? Tulips why is the river rich? -Because it has two banks

Warm-up questions ―What flower does everybody have? ―Tulips. ―Why is the river rich? ―Because it has two banks

Objectives At the end of this unit of this unit students will 1. become familiar with the concept of semantics 2. know the scope of semantic study

Objectives At the end of this unit of this unit students will 1. become familiar with the concept of semantics; 2. know the scope of semantic study

Contents 01 Definition 02 Word Meaning 03 Semantic Relations between words

Contents Definition Word Meaning Semantic Relations between Words 01 02 03

Part one Definition 2 What is semantics?

Definition Part one What is semantics?

Definition of semantics Semantics is the systematic study of meaning communicated through language In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to understanding meanings inherent at the levels of words phrases sentences and larger units of discourse(also referred to as text

Definition of semantics Semantics is the systematic study of meaning communicated through language. In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to understanding meanings inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and larger units of discourse (also referred to as text)

Part Two Word meaning

Part Two Word Meaning

One important point made by the linguist Ferdinand de saussure is that the meaning of linguistic expressions derives from two sources the language they are part of and the world they de escribe

One important point made by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure is that the meaning of linguistic expressions derives from two sources: the language they are part of and the world they describe

The relationship by which language hooks onto the world is usually called reference(所指) Roughly, a terms reference is the object it refers to and its sense(aafa) is the way in which it refers to that object For instance, the reference of the American president is Barack Obama, but the sense of the expression may be the“ highest executive office

The relationship by which language hooks onto the world is usually called reference(所指）. Roughly, a term’s reference is the object it refers to and its sense(能指) is the way in which it refers to that object. For instance, the reference of the American president is Barack Obama, but the sense of the expression may be the “highest executive office

Part three 2 Semantic relations between words

Part Three Semantic relations between words