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1.5 Significance of the Study
1. The study is expected to give the readers the understanding what is the state situation
2. Identify the state situation in the table which fit based on theory of Vendler
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Semantics
Semantics is the philosophical and scientific study of meaning. Brinton 2000: 11 states that the word semantic has ultimately prevailed as a name for
the doctrine of meaning, in particular of linguistic meaning. It means that semantics discuss about the meaning for the linguistics.
Kearns 2000:10 states that semantics is the study of meaning in language. Semantics terms was derived from Greek word sema the meaning is
sign or symbol, refers to the aspects of meaning that are expressed to the meaning of the words and how they combined two form sentence meaning”. The former is
to do with the meaning of words; the letteer is to do with the meaning of phrases, including a sentences. It means that semantics told about the signsymbol that
means of communication to give the message or meaning of them. Yule 2006:14 states that semantics can be described as the study of the
meaning of words, phrases and sentences. Semantics is concerned to the meaning of words and how they combined two form sentences meaning. It is useful to
distinguish lexical semantic and structural semantic. Semantics is one of the branches of linguistics studying about the meaning
and it is considered as a major branch of linguistic devoted to the study of meaning in a language. But what is meaning? Philosopers have debated the
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