Understanding Semantics

Semantics is a fascinating subject, because it is ¿cognition turning in upon it". This subject has also often seemed baffling with many different approaches to it. Semantics is also an appealing subject because it is about how people make sense of each other linguistically, but it can be a frustrating area of study because it requires us to make sense of people and what they have in mind. " Understanding semantics'' aims at instill in students of linguistics and translation a love of semantics and involve them actively in the learning experience through a flexible approach, which allows for the building up of modular parts as well as meaningful and clearly defined activities