ABSTRACT
In moving from the level of sound to the level of morphemes and word components, the authors discuss the area of linguistics called semantics, which is the study of meaning. Linguistics came to the task of modelling meaning both at word and sentence level. At word level it produced concepts such as denotation, connotation, componential analysis and semantic fields. On the level of sentence meaning, it has developed concepts such as presupposition and entailment, which will only partly concern the translator. Words enter into relations other than that of general-specific, and one will find these dealt with in detail in the standard works on semantics. The words have different connotational meanings. The research conducted by Osgood, Succi and Tannenbaum led them to the conclusion that speakers react to words in three dimensions: words are good or bad, active or passive, strong or weak.
