English Literature - Phonetics and Linguistics

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English Literature - Phonetics and Linguistics

Study of meaning in a language is known as :


Options:

  1. Syntax
  2. Morphology
  3. Semantics
  4. Linguistics

Right Answer: Semantics

Semantics is the branch of linguistics that studies meaning in language: the meanings of individual words, the sense relations between them such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy and polysemy, and the way the meanings of words combine to give the meaning of phrases and sentences. Syntax deals with the arrangement of words into grammatical structures, and morphology with the internal structure of words. Linguistics is the general name for the scientific study of language as a whole, of which semantics is only one branch. Pragmatics, a related field, studies meaning in context.

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