There are several functions of language. At least there are three functions of language which become the fundamental basis in explaining m...

Semantics  as one of the branches of pure linguistics is simply defined as the study of meaning in language. before going any further, fir...

Many authors credit Aristotle with being the first to outline a theory of metaphor, and note its influence on subsequent writing on the ...

Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. It focuses on the conventional meaning conveyed by the use of wo...

Presupposition is first assumption that appears in speaker's mind in conversation that the hearer can understand what the speaker is tal...

Entailment is a relationship that applies between two sentences, where the truth of one implies the truth of the other because the meanings...

Sentence which might be true or false depend on the world which they refer. In contrast to analytic sentences, synthetic sentences are not ...

An analytic sentence is one that is necessarily true as a result of the words in it. For instance "bachelor is unmarried man” is true n...

Although the term of 'formal semantic' might be used in a very general sense to refer to a whole set of different approaches to th...

Philosophically sentence is devided into two categories, performative and constative . Performative is a sentence which does not descri...

Key issues: What is sentence? What is sentential semantics? What is truth? What is truth condition theory? What is componential analysi...

1.  Synonymy is a meaning relation which involves two or more expression having the same interpretation. Synonymy will always mean one of tw...

Key issues: Do you know what is the definition of language? Do you know what are the language feature? Do you know what is meaning? Lan...