THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL COMPONENT IN WORD SEMANTICS
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Words, Meaning, Semantics, Semantic RolesAbstract
It is quite imperative to note that meaning has a significant role to play in human communication. Consequent upon this fact, semantics as a field of study has becomean issue of debate. Linguists are still in oblivion with regard to consensus on single and workable definition of semantics. This controversy has led to several unending attempts to define semantics. The emphasis of this study is centred on the semantic roles of words in a given context upholding extentionalist opinion as a background or theoretical framework
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