Semantics I acknowledgements
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| 4.1 Basic Statements According to Leech, it is so-called basic statements because they are statements at level where investigators seem to find themselves intuitively in agreement and that they are statements easily translatable into terms of truth and falsehood, notion which all normal users of language understand. 4.1.1 Synonymy Synonymy is the relation of sameness of meaning, for example glad and happy, sofa and couch, John loves Mary’s only sister and John SEMANTICS Page 55 loves the female sibling of Mary, are synonymous. The latter pairs are paraphrase. Paraphrase is the processor result, of rewording an utterance from one level or variety of a language into another without altering the meaning (Hatmann & Stork, 1973 : It is in paraphrase the rules of synonymy can be given of which logic is the relation of meaning in sentence, not between words alone. Another example of paraphrase ; He is an orphan – he is a child and have no father and mother. Thus the rule of synonymy is Xis synonymous with Y X has the same truth value as Y – if Xis true, Y is true and if Xis false and Y is false. Also, Amir lives in Jakarta has the same truth value with Amir lives in the capital of Indonesia. But how if our example is like this, Amir lives in Jakarta and Amir lives in the capital of Indonesia. Shall we say that they have the same truth value Our judgment then, based on logicians view of the use of neither…..nor to its application of not X where Xis any proposition, the two sentences have the same truth value. If it is so, the logicians viewed them from just the meaning, not including the syntactic or grammatical marker which signifies meaning. For linguist ( in semantic sense, both sentences above have no the same truth value, as the latter means : Amir does not live in the capital of Indonesia (Jakarta) now, which is shown by the verb tense. |