Semantics And Pragmatics

This group collects the Linguistics subcategory's members whose defining work concerns semantics and pragmatics: how meaning is built and used in language, both the literal meaning of words and sentences and the meaning conveyed in context. It is kept apart from Syntax And Generative Grammar, whose members study sentence structure rather than meaning, and from Psycholinguistics, whose members study the cognitive processing of language rather than meaning as a linguistic system.