semantics
noun[U]
uk/sɪˈmæn.tɪks/us/səˈmæn.t̬ɪks/thestudyofmeaningsin alanguage:
语义学Syntaxdescribestherulesby which words can becombinedintosentences, while semanticsdescribeswhat theymean.句法描述单词组成句子的规则,而语义学则描述它们的意义。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism