tik 1 introduction Hurford and Heasley 1. Introduction Objective : –Students are able to explain the importance of studying Semantics –Students are able to give examples of speaker’s meaning and sentence meaning

tik 1 introduction Hurford and Heasley 1. Introduction Topics : –The importance of Semantics –Speaker’s meaning and sentence meaning

tik 1 introduction Hurford and Heasley 1. Introduction Semantics –The study of meaning Meaning –Speaker meaning – depends on the speaker’s intention –Sentence meaning – depends on the meaning of the words in the sentence

tik 1 introduction Hurford and Heasley Conclusion Semantics : the study of meaning Sentence meaning : meaning depends on the senses of words Speaker meaning : meaning depends of the speaker’s intension