Handbook of Semantics

Free Download Handbook of Semantics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1774694042 | 252 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Semantics, in general, is the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning. The term "semantics" was coined in 1883 by Michel Bréal, a French philologist, to describe how words may have varying meanings for different individuals based on their experiences and emotional histories. A language might be natural, such as French, Italian, Dutch, or Hindi, or artificial, such as a computer programming language. Theoretical computer scientists are concerned with the study and development of artificial languages, whereas linguists are concerned with natural languages. The effort to introduce human languages to computers and make them talk as casually as humans has advanced tremendously during the previous two decades. Semantics is a subfield of linguistics concerned with the study of the meanings of various types of linguistic units, ranging from smaller units such as words, sentences, or phrases to larger units of speech, collectively referred to as texts.