semasiology
/sɪˌmeɪzɪˈɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of linguistics that deals with words and phrases and the concepts that they represent. Compare with onomasiology.In contrast, semasiology conceptualizes the signifying body and the spaces in which people move as specifically human; that is, as meaning-making practices specific to language-using creatures....
- In semasiology, for example, a non-Cartesian concept of person is coupled with a new-realist, post-positivist philosophy of science.
- This presumes Williams's concept of the ‘action sign’, and thus locates semasiology where it belongs at the forefront of anthropological theories of human embodiment.
Derivatives
semasiological
- In spite of the above critical remarks, I do not wish to deny the value of both the onomasiological and the semasiological approaches in semantic studies.
- Williams provided exactly this understanding in her semasiological concept of the ‘action sign’.
- More specifically, I proceed from the perspective of semasiological theory, which accepts biology as a necessary ground for human agency but not as a deterministic mechanism that can account for human social behavior.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from German Semasiologie, from Greek sēmasia 'meaning', from sēmainein 'signify'.
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