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L2 Semantics from a Formal Linguistic Perspective
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Slabakova, Roumyana – Language Teaching, 2018
Ever since Aristotle and Plato ("The Categories"; "Cratylus"), linguists have considered language to be the pairing of form (sounds or gestures or written strings) and meaning. This is true for all meaningful linguistic units from morphemes, through words, phrases and sentences, to discourse. Generally speaking, semantics is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics