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Semantics is concerned with meaning, and with the relation between the FORM of a particular language and the meaning that forms represents. It includes: a. The Study of the area of meaning of individual words within the lexical system of specific languages, and the combinations of words which each language permits. b. Meaning in relation to context, whether linguistic or non linguistic context. c. The meaning and relationships signaled by specific grammatical forms and patterns. d. The transfer, or translation, of meaning from one language to another. 12 Semantic is usually contrasted with other aspects of expression meaning, there are syntax The formation of the complex symbols from the simple symbols, and pragmatic practical use of the symbol by the agency or community to a condition or a specific context. 13 Generally, semantics is the study of meaning and is contrasted into three aspects. There are: a. Syntax b. Semiotic 12 Ibid, p.10. 13 Henry G Tarigan, PengajaranSemantik,Bandung, Angkasa, 1985, p.2. c. Pragmatic 14 Syntax interprets the formal relationship between the sign of each other, semiotic interpret the relations of the signs and objects that form an implementation of the sign itself. Whereas, pragmatic is a knowledge that interpret the relation of the signs with interpret. Morries subsequently made a changes and limited pragmatics as “the branch of semiotics which examines the origins, uses, and effects of signs”, based on the limitation by Morries previously Rudolf Carnap then made the restrictions as follows: “If in an investigation research the references either explicitly made to the speaker, or in a broader sense, the language user, then we put him into the field of pragmatics area. In advance resume it from the language users and only analyze the expression and the signifying, that we have been semantic field. If we resumed them from the signifying and then analyze the relations among the expressions, then we have been on the syntactic field. These whole sciences of languages that cover all those three parts above, is called semantics. 15 Semantic has a very important role for linguistics. Ferdinand de Saussure referred as the signifier significant and the signified signify, 16 then the actually the study of linguistics without semantics is merely 14 Ibid, p.3. 15 Ibid, pp. 2-4. 16 F. R. Palmer, Semantic: a New Outline New York: Cambridge University, 1976, p.5.