Relationship between semantics and other level of linguistics
Relationship Between Semantics and other Levels of Linguistics and Branches of Linguistics According to O’Grady, (2005), Semantics is the study of meaning in human language. Clearly semantics is a vast subject. “Meaning”, however, is a very vague term. In ordinary English, the word meaning is used to refer to such different things as the idea or intention lying behind a piece of language (Riemer, 2010:2). The study of meaning was very largely neglected. This was because meaning was felt to be inherently subjective and at least temporarily beyond the scope of scientific investigation. Semantics is one of the levels of linguistics; linguistics refers to scientific study of language (Todd, 1987). Semantics however, has relationship with other levels of linguistics which are Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics; and branches of linguistics which are sociolinguistics, psycho-linguistics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics, anthropol...