Semantics Project

Semantics Project

Let's learn with VANVI

Karin Rodríguez Ángela Calderón Viviana Rojas

Instructions

Content

As you read and turn the pages of the interactive book, you will find several figures like these:

• Semantics and Pragmatics.
• Vocabulary Slangs.
• Lexical and grammatical.
• Sentences and Utterance.
• Lexical Semantic Relations.
• Type of sentences.
• Idioms.

GAME

You must press all the buttons that are in the book, these buttons have information, images, examples and games on the topics.

Now, go and learn with Vanvi!!

What does the word MEAN mean?

Pragmatics

The linguistic sign as authentic ideological signal, as representation of concepts, as semantic substance.

Pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and users of those forms. It looks beyond the literal meaning of an utterance.

Semantics

Science that studies the meaning of words and linguistic expressions in a literal sense. Semantics takes into account the meaning of a sentence without paying attention to its context

Let's go to play!

Vocabulary Slangs

How to use slangs in English?

When we say "slang" we mean the idioms, colloquialisms and jargon used when speaking or writing in a language. It is certainly one of the most challenging aspects when learning a new language as it varies from region to region.

The benefits of using slangs

• You can adapt to different contexts.
• You can be more immersed in the culture.
• You can communicate in a more natural way.
• It helps you keep up with the language.

TYPES

GAME

examples

Lexical and grammatical

Sentence and Utterance

• Lexical is a discipline that studies what words are and why they have that meaning, as well as trying to understand how speakers interpret and use words.
• Grammatical is responsible for preventing sentences from being poorly formed, this discipline seeks to follow all the rules of grammar when creating a sentence.

• Sentence is a group of words that give a complete meaning, it will always have a subject, verb and object.

• Utterance is a unit belonging to speech, so it does not usually convey a complete meaning, it does not have a structure because even a burp, pause or breath could be a utterance.

Categories

Lexical

Grammatical

Lexical Semantic Relations

HolonymyMeronymy Hypernymy Hyponyms

Complex sentences are formed by an independent clause and one or more depent clauses. In these sentences we can find a subordinate or relative pronouns. Compound / Complex sentences are made up of two independent clauses and one or more depent clauses.

TYPE OF SENTENCES

Simple sentences have only one idea and are composed of an independent clause. Structure : Subject + Verb. Compund sentences are composed of two indepent clauses separated by a semicolon, comma or conjunction. These sentences also usually have fanboys:

GAME

IDIOMS

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English idioms are a group of words whose meaning isn’t obvious from looking at the individual words.

• Learning common idioms in English will help you fit in with most situations, whether it’s at a basketball game, over a beer, studying, or going out on a hot date.

We hope you have learned a lot in a fun and different way, it was a pleasure to be part of this process, see you on another occasion!