AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is the study of meaning.
A
syntax
B
semantics
C
grammar
D
spellling
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases and sentences. In semantic analysis, there is always an attempt to focus on what the words conventionally mean, rather than on what an individual speaker (like George Carlin) might want them to mean on a particular occasion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, sentences and text. This can be broken down into subcategories such as formal semantics (logical aspects of meaning), conceptual semantics (cognitive structure of meaning) and today’s focus of lexical semantics (word and phrase meaning).

Detailed explanation-3: -discuss) (September 2020) Semantics (from Ancient Greek: sēmantikós, “significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and computer science.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hence, it is clear that Semantics is the study of words and their meaning.

Detailed explanation-5: -Geoffrey N. Leech. Harmondsworth, Penguin (1974)

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