Definition of SEMANTIC According to Expert

Theory Geoffrey Leech Of Semantic - How language work

Geoffrey Leech in his book semantics breaks 

down “meaning” in widest sense into seven different types 

giving primary importance to logical or conceptual meaning. 

The six other types are Connotative meaning, Social meaning, 

Affective meaning, Reflected meaning, Collocative meaning 

and thematic meaning. These seven types of meaning are 

compared with the three types of lexical meaning.

The term semantics was used broadly to refer to the study of 

meaning. It was also central to the study of communication. 

Though the ‘meaning’ or the information one wants to 

communicate can be conveyed through a number of means 

like gesture, picture, signals, etc. language was the main tool 

of communication of the human beings. Semantics as a branch 

of linguistics was mainly concerned with how the ‘meaning’ 

was conveyed by the linguistics system consisting of different 

unit structures like sentence, phrases, words, morphemes etc.

semantics as a study of meaning, which relates language to the 

various aspects of non-linguistics reality, was also of interest 

to various disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, 

psychology, communication theory etc.,

Semantics in the broad sense of the term can be considered to 

study all that was communication by language, but some 

scholars would like to restrict semantics to the study of logical 

or conceptual meaning i.e. only those aspects of meaning 

which are logically acceptable leaving out deviation and 

abnormalities.