MORPHOLOGY:

Studies the internal structure of words.

• It can be divided into smaller meaningful parts.

FUNCTIONS:

• It is used to describe the structure of words and patterns of words formation in a language, also to compare the relations between the form and meaning of some expressions.

TYPES:

• Free: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word without another morpheme.
• Bound: A sound or a combination of sounds that cannot stand alone as a word.

Semantics

SEMANTICS:

Semantics is the study of 
meaning. It is a wide
subject within the general
study of language.

Semanticists answer questions (What is the meaning of ‘X’ word). For doing that, they should study which are the existing signs and which of them are meaningful, it is to say, what do they mean for speakers and how listeners interpret the signs, words, expressions, etc.

CONNOTATION:

• Personal or emotional association aroused by words.
• Common usage.
• Childish:Child’s characteristic/ immaturity.

DENNOTATION:

• It is the central meaning of a word or lexeme, as it is described in a dictionary.

AMBIGUITY:

• It occurs when a language element has more than one meaning.

Misunderstanding:

Perhaps, when people from different cultures are faced, they could find a lot of words, sounds, signs, gestures, etc., that can be interpreted in some different ways. Each culture has an own meaning for things, but not always they can be interpreted in the best way for others as the following examples.

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