On theoretical aspects of english language

Semasiology (or semantics ) is a branch of linguistics which studies meaning.
Semasiology is singled out as an independent branch of Lexicology alongside word-formation , etymology , phraseology and lexicography . And at the same time it is often referred to as the central branch of Lexicology . The significance of semasiology may be accounted for by three main considerations : 1. Language is the basic human communication system aimed at ensuring the exchange of information between the communicants which implies that the semantic side forms the backbone of communication. 2. By definition Lexicology deals with words , morpheme and word-groups . All those linguistic units are two-faced entities having both form and meaning.
Semasiology underlines all other branches of Lexicology . Meaning is the object of semasiological study.So, Semasiology is concerned with the " meaning of words, studies the types of meaning, the change of meaning, the semantic structure of words, semantic groupings, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms etc.

«Over eighty years ago, a new term was introduced into linguistic studies. In 1883 the French philologist Michel Breal published an article on what he called the «intellectual laws» of language. In this he argued that, alongside of phonetics and morphology, the .study of the formal elements of human speech, there ought also to be a science of meaning, which he proposed to call «la semantique, by a word derived from the Greek» «sign» (cf, semapgore) . . . and in the first place Breal himself, who established semantics as a discipline in its own right. Three years after its publication, Breal's «Essay» was translated into English under the title «Semantics.

«Studies in the Science of Meanings and although the term had been used in English a few years earlier this translation played a decisive role in the diffusion of the new science and its name». (Ulmann}

There is no generally accepted definition of the term «meaning of the word».

F.de Saussure, a well-known Swiss linguist, says that the meaning is the relation between the object or notion named and the name itself, L. Bloomfield, a well-known American linguist, points out that the meaning is the situation in which the word is uttered. The situations prompt people to utter speech.

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