CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words. For example, “destination” and “last stop” technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.

Detailed explanation-2: -People with semantic processing difficulties have particular trouble with abstract words like ‘curious’ or ‘vague’, words that relate to feelings and emotions such as ‘embarrassed’ and ‘anxious’, and words that refer to status (for instance ‘expert’ or ‘authority’) or degree (for example, ‘essential’ or ‘approximate’).

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, in everyday use, a child might make use of semantics to understand a mom’s directive to “do your chores” as, “do your chores whenever you feel like it.” However, the mother was probably saying, “do your chores right now.”

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, this sentence – “He is so cool.” Semantically, this sentence can be interpreted as – He is very nice, a compliment to the person, which is the literal meaning. But under pragmatics, this sentence suggests the context: the positive attitude of the speaker towards the person.