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Semantics

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    Assalamu'laikum.wr.wb my brothers...i'm so sorry, because i'm late to post to you about our lesson. This lesson becomes in the end of Introduction of Linguistics lesson and now, i want to tell you about it.     Semantic is one of branch of lingustics and study the meaning. There are many branch of semantics, namely: polysemy, synonymy,antonymy,hyponymy and idiom. Be based on definition of Charles (2002:3) “semantics was the systematic study of meaning, and semantics was the study of how languages organized and expressed meaning. It referred how language was formed and produced meaning which will bring us to meaning concept”. Therefore, the goal of semantic study was to explain how sequences of languages were matched with their proper meanings and placed in certain environments by speakers of the language. It   means that semantics was not just how to build words or sentences and produced language but also how to interpret the language it self.    Under the subject

Lexicology

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   Assalamu’alaikum wr.wb…I hope you always be protected by ALLAH brothers. like usually,in this chance, I wanna continue our lesson about linguistics exactly about Lexicology.  As we know that lexicology is the study of words. Words are only one of the strands in language, strand that has, in the past, been given too much attention and a strand that, because of our familiarity   with it, we have often failed to study as rigorously and as objectively as other aspects of language. We shall then consider word-formation and word classes. What do we mean by ‘word’ ?   A better approach to defining words is to acknowledge that threre is no one totally satisfactory definition, but that we can isolate four of the most frequently implied meanings of ‘word’ : ·          An orthographic word is one which has a space on either side of it. ·          A morphological word is a unique form. It considers form only and not meaning. ·          A lexical word comprehends the various f