ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 is an introduction to semantics and its main areas and concepts. It discusses such areas and notions as ‘denotation’ versus ‘connotation’, ‘signifier’ versus ‘signified’, ‘reference’ versus ‘sense’, ‘compositional meaning’ versus ‘unitary meaning’, ‘lexical relations’, ‘semantic roles’, ‘semantic principles’, and ‘frame semantics’ in a direct link to translation. After studying this chapter, readers should be able to identify semantic roles and verb-specific semantic roles assigned to each noun phrase, identify the different relationships that a word has with other words, differentiate between ‘compositional meaning’ and ‘unitary meaning’, differentiate between ‘connotative meaning’ and ‘denotative meaning’, and differentiate between ‘generalization’ and ‘particularization’.
