... general, but he has no advantage over anynormal speaker of a language in the matter of access to the basic dataconcerning meaning.English, like most languages, has a number of different dialects. ... relationships. This is also part ofcommunication.UNIT 1About semantics 5The social relationships formed and maintained by the use of language arenot all courteous and amicable. Speaker meaning ... paradoxical: if semantics is the study of meaning, and speakers already know the meanings of all theexpressions in their language, surely they cannot learn anything from semantics! What can a book written...