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/ˌsiːmeɪsɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/ · noun
(linguistics) Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression..
Stylistics seemed to have become a four-letter-word in German semasiology, a fact that shows how far official German semasiology had shifted away from Reisig's initial outline, and how different it was from Bréal's semantics of language-use and Wegener's semantics of communication.
"The early theories of semasiology attempted to account for meaning shifts in language."
It must be left to students of musical semasiology to account for the psychological association that exists between the spiritual concept of goodness and saintliness and the notational accident of the absence of sharps and flats in the key signature, which results in the 'whiteness' of the music.
Use semasiology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Semasiology means (linguistics) Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression..
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Stylistics seemed to have become a four-letter-word in German semasiology, a fact that shows how far official German semasiology had shifted away from Reisig's initial outline, and how different it was from Bréal's semantics of language-use and Wegener's semantics of communication.
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