ABSTRACT
Semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, such as morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Often semantics is more narrowly defined as the meaning of expressions divorced from the context in which these utterances are produced, and from various characteristics of the sender or receiver of the message. The study of meaning derived from context and features of the communicators is called pragmatics. The first part of this chapter deals with semantics, the second with pragmatics.
