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Semantics is the field of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning in language. There are two main divisions in semantics: lexical semantics, which is the study of word meaning, and phrasal semantics, which is the study of how meanings of phrases and sentences are constructed from individual words. While semantics studies literal word and sentence meanings, pragmatics examines how meanings are used in context, including figurative language. Semantics has a broad scope and incorporates contributions f

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Hen Kun

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EN