Semantics Matters

Dec 4, 2011 by LelaMay

Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata.

Important component of many jokes is the disambiguation of words with multiple meanings. There are jokes that depends on the resolution of semantically ambiguous words were explored.

Following comics are examples why semantics matter?!?