Semantics (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Numerous contributors from both disciplines. The study of meaning in natural language. ‘Meaning’ is an elusive concept which modern linguists tackle by dispersing into other fundamental ideas such as IMPLICATURE, MEANING-NN, sense and reference, VALUE. Also see: theories of meaning, LEXICAL SEMANTICS, STRUCTURAL SEMANTICS, truth-conditional semantics Source: J Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge, 1977) Linguistics Main article: Semantics (linguistics) In linguistics,