Semasiology

The semasiology (from Greek semasia, meaning ' ) is within semiotics and semantics as a branch of the theory of word meanings. The semasiology is a procedure of lexicology, when you first starting from a word and then shows its meanings.

Semasiological issues

Semasiological questions are, for example, " What does the word work?" Or " What is the difference between (or the commonality of ) Consolidated and company?". Since a word as a homonym or Polysem can have different meanings depending on the context, the semasiology examined Whatever the relationship between text and word, not hold him without resolve such ambiguities.

History of semasiology

The semasiology was founded in 1825 by Karl Christian brushwood with his lectures on Latin Linguistics. The studies on this subject have continued especially by Friedrich August Eckstein, Gerhard Franz, Friedrich Haase, army Ferdinand Degen, H. Lehmann, Peter Hermann, Richard Chenevix Trench et al. The semasiology was initially operated mainly historical. She was thus essentially interested in semantic change.

Heinz Kronasser sought in his Manual of semasiology a psychological explanation of the variation of the words. Other important work on semasiology provided, inter alia, Stephen Ullmann, Kurt Baldinger and Otto Ducháček. The studies showed that the semasiology essentially limited to an exploration of reciprocal influences of words and the consequent results. One result of the investigations related to the onomasiology has been able to provide the linguistic evidence that the word and concept are not identical.

Onomasiology - Etymology - Names Research

The opposite of semasiology is the onomasiology that emanates from concepts or objects and then asks how they are called at certain times, in certain places.

The origin and history of words is concerned the etymology, which includes questions about the meaning of words.

The name research deals especially with the history, significance and distribution of names.