ABSTRACT
In descriptive studies, a recent popular direction has been based on the fact that each word is enmeshed in a web of semantic relations, so to give the meaning of a word people must place it in a 'semantic network' of all the words and their relationships to other words in the language. In recent times, usage theories have tended towards identifying a word's meaning with rules governing when it can be used. A type of usage theory that has been more popular in linguistics is to take the meaning of a word to be its possibilities of collocation with other words its possibilities of usage in a language. A system for writing meaning alone is called a 'pasigraphy'; it is naturally international, for it does not relate to the pronunciation that a language may use for its concepts. Most concepts or word meanings are a bit 'fuzzy'.
