Semantics
Study of reference, meaning, or truth.
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Reference
Relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
In semantics, reference is generally construed as the relationships between nouns or pronouns and objects that are named by them.
Pragmatics
Study of how context contributes to meaning.
Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning, and syntax which examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships.
Phonology
Sign languages have a phonological system equivalent to the system of sounds in spoken languages.
(b) all levels of language where sound or signs are structured to convey linguistic meaning.
Principle of compositionality
In semantics, mathematical logic and related disciplines, the principle of compositionality is the principle that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituent expressions and the rules used to combine them.
Lexical semantics
Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.
Meaning (philosophy)
In semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemantics, meaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".
Presupposition
A presupposition must be mutually known or assumed by the speaker and addressee for the utterance to be considered appropriate in context.
A significant amount of current work in semantics and pragmatics is devoted to a proper understanding of when and how presuppositions project.
Proposition
Meaning of a declarative sentence.
It can generally be used to refer to some or all of the following: The primary bearers of truth values (such as "true" and "false"); the objects of belief and other propositional attitudes (i.e. what is believed, doubted, etc.); the referents of "that"-clauses (e.g. "It is true that the sky is blue" and "I believe that the sky is blue" both involve the proposition the sky is blue); and the meanings of declarative sentences.
Semantic Web
Extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium .
To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) are used.
Prosody (linguistics)
Concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm.
This sort of expression stems not from linguistic or semantic effects, and can thus be isolated from traditional linguistic content.