English Language A-Level
Semantics
What Semantics means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Semantics
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Concerns meaning, including denotation, connotation, sense relations and semantic change.
Topics that use Semantics
Related terms
- Context
- Context and inferred meaning
- Context, audience and purpose
- Cooperative principle and implicature
- Discourse
- Genre
- Grammar as a meaning-making resource
- Graphology
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