Semantics
The study of the meaning of language.
Lexicon
The set of words in language.
Linguistic form
The structure of words and sentences.
Context
Situations in which you use language.
Sense
The meaning of a word in the dictionary.
Referent
The object a word is referring to.
Speaker-reference
What a speaker is intending referring to.
Linguistic-reference
The standard reference of a word.
Extension
The set of all possible things a word can refer to.
Protoype
A type example of a category.
Coreference
Two expressions that refer to the same thing.
Anaphora
When one words refers back to a previous word.
Deixis
Words that meaning changes depending on the context.
Semantic meaning
The literal meaning of what is being said.
Compositional semantics
Study of how sentence meaning is built from words
Lexical semantics
Study of word meanings and relationships.
Denotative meaning
The literal meaning of a word.
Connotative meaning
The associated meaning of a word.
Social meaning
The meaning of a words influenced by social context.
Thematic meaning
Meaning created by structure and emphasis of a sentence.
Conceptual theory
The theory that words connect to objects through mental concepts.
Behavioristic theory
The theory that meaning comes from how language is used.
+animate/-animate
Whether something is a living thing.
+human/-human
Whether something is human or not.
