Semantic

 

Semantics is the study about meaning in language. It could be applied to full texts or to single words. The word meaning could be defined in many ways, but the definition most best to linguistics and the one we will use is that meaning is "the function of signs in language."  This understanding of meaning suitable to German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's definition: 'the meaning of a word is its use in the language' (in other words, the role a word plays in the language). For example, "destination" and "last stop" we can think the mean is same , but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning. Anyone who speaks a language has a truly amazing capacity to reason about the meanings of texts. Take, for instance, the sentence :
He can’t sleep because of you

Even though you have probably never seen this sentence, you can easily see things like the following :

1.      The sentence is about someone ( speaker ) want to sleep

2.      The speaker want to sleep but ‘you’ distrub him

3.      The speaker “can’t” sleep because the speaker miss the ‘you’.

4.      ‘You’ give something to the speaker, so that the speaker ( he ) can’t sleep.

Very much meaning in one sentence, so its make semantic very interesting to learn

This is LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ( GERMAN PHILOSOPHER )