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Understanding Collocative Meaning in Linguistics and Language Teaching

Dr Mohammed Zaheer Ab Khan

Volume: 15 Issue: 4 2025

Abstract:

Semantics is an intricate and multi-dimensional study, which has never been easily defined in a mere one-dimensional definition. Linguists have over decades been trying to unravel its dynamics, nature, and features. In its essence, semantics is concerned with meaning, which is how one interacts and comprehend language. Although the meaning may appear very simple, its nature and how it functions in the language is not as simple. To linguists, one of the greatest challenges is the classification of these meanings and how these meanings are structured. Over the years, theorists have come up with different methods of executing this task yet none of the definitions has been able to capture all the shades that are involved. Among leading experts in the field of semantics, several linguists have been able to distinguish between different kinds of meaning that help to get a more comprehensive understanding of how language is used to express thoughts. Nevertheless, even these attempts do not allow providing a certain and unambiguous explanation of some of the semantic concepts.

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