Discipline: Philosophy
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The study of meaning in natural language.
'Meaning' is an elusive concept which modern linguists tackle by dispersing into other fundamental ideas such as IMPLICATURE, MEANING-NN, sense and reference, VALUE.
Also see: LEXICAL SEMANTICS, STRUCTURAL SEMANTICS, theories of meaning, truth-conditional semantics
Source:
J Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge, 1977)