New game
Download
SCORM download
To be used in an LMS (Moodle, Blackboard...)
Regular download
To be published on a website or blog.
Downloading games is an exclusive feature for users with an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.
Get your Academic Plan or your Commercial Plan now and start integrating your games into your LMS, website or blog.
Get Academic Plan
If you wish, you can download a demo game here and test its integration:
Share game
Slideshow
Slideshow

Week 5 Semantics

Integrate it into your platform
G. Classroom M. Teams
You can integrate the game into an LMS compatible with LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3 such as Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard. This way, the scores will be automatically saved into the platform’s gradebook.
Download
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can integrate into Google Classroom with your current Plan.

To integrate as many games as you want in Google Classroom, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can integrate into Microsoft Teams with your current Plan.

To integrate as many games as you want in Microsoft Teams, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
Downloading games is an exclusive feature for users with an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get your Academic Plan or your Commercial Plan now and start integrating your games into your LMS, website or blog.

If you wish, you can download a demo game here and test its integration:

Get Academic Plan

Week 5 Semantics

Slideshow

Played 1
Create copy

About this activity

Semantics

Created by

Noel Cecil Tiong Hao Hieng
Noel Cecil Tiong Hao Hieng
Malaysia

Download the paper version to play

Make your own free game from our game creator
Compete against your friends to see who gets the best score in this game
Make challenge

Top Games

 %
Anonymous
Anonymous
 %
%
%
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can print with your current Plan.

To print as many games as you want, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
Print your game
Week 5 Semantics
 

Week 5 SemanticsOnline version

Semantics

by Noel Cecil Tiong Hao Hieng
1

Learning Objectives

2

Slide 1: What is Semantics?

Definition: Semantics is the systems of rules underlying our knowledge of word and sentence meaning. It studies how we construct and understand meaning in language.

3

Slide 2: Scope of Semantics

Semantics covers the study of word and clause meaning, including how we interpret expressions, phrases, and sentences in context.

4

Slide 3: Meaning in Semantics

Types of meaning include lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic aspects, with a focus on how speakers communicate and interpret information.

5

Slide 4: Lexical Semantics

Lexical semantics examines the relationship between words and their meanings, often treated as arbitrary connections, with exceptions like onomatopoeia.

6

Slide 5: Semantic Features

Meanings can be described by binary features (e.g., human vs. nonhuman, animate vs. inanimate).

7

Slide 6: Antonymy

Antonymy involves opposite meanings. They can be complementary, gradable, or relational, highlighting contrastive pairs.


Relational

• Antonyms that describe a relationship to the other


Complementary

• Antonyms that can only be in one group; absolute opposites


Gradable

• Antonyms at two ends on a scale, and there can be various gradations

of each term; varied

8

Slide 7: Synonymy & Hyponymy

Synonymy: different forms, similar meanings. Examples vary by dialect and style.


Dialectal variation; not shared across dialect boundaries

• couch; sofa; chesterfield; divan


Language change over time; different generations

• pocketbook; handbag; purse


Style and register; different settings

• ride (casual); car (form

9

Slide 8: Hyponymy & Polysemy

Hyponymy = meaning is included in a broader term (flower/tulip). Polysemy = a word with related multiple meanings.

10

Slide 9: Ambiguity & Vagueness

Ambiguity arises when a sentence has more than one interpretation. Vagueness involves unclear boundaries of meaning.

11

Homonymy

Homonyms

• Words wit;h the same sound and spelling but different, unrelated meanings

• Example:

• bear: to have children or to tolerate (She can’t *bear children.)


Homophones

• Words that do not share the same spellings or meanings but sound the same

• Examples

• sole/soul, gorilla/guerilla, to/too/two


Homographs

• Words that have the same spelling, different meanings, and different pronunciations

• Examples:

• bow (of a ship)/bow (of an arrow)

12

Slide 10: Meaning Change

Meaning shifts over time (narrowing, broadening, amelioration, pejoration). Semantics also covers figurative language like metaphor and idioms.


Narrowing

• Change in words’ meanings over time to more specific meanings

• Example:

• In Old English, the word hund meant dog, but in Modern English, hound refers to a

particular type of dog


Broadening

• Change in words’ meanings over time to more general or inclusive

• Example:

• In Old English, bridd meant young bird, but in Middle English, bird came to mean ‘fowl

of any age’


Amelioration

• Shift of words’ meanings over time from neutral or negative to positive

• Example:

• croon means ‘to sing softly’, comes from Dutch kronen; ‘to groan or lament’


Pejoration

• Shift of words’ meanings over time from neutral or positive to negative

• Example:

• In Old English, ceorl meant ‘peasant, freeman, layman’, but during Middle English

degenerated in meaning and occurs in current English as churl, ‘a rude or ill-bred

person

13

Figurative Language

Figurative Language; Nonliteral language; language that shifts meaning from the primary

meaning of the word


Types:

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Metonymy

• Simile

• Idiom
 
Are you sure you want to leave the page?

If you leave, you will lose the game in progress.