Semanticists
Semanticists are researchers who study meaning in language, investigating how words, phrases, and sentences encode information, how context affects interpretation, and how meaning relates to truth and reference. They work across disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, and computer science, and their inquiries range from the meanings of individual words to the structure of complex discourse.
Key subfields include lexical semantics, which analyzes word meanings and relationships like synonymy, antonymy, and polysemy;
Methodologically, semanticists employ a variety of tools: theoretical frameworks such as Montague grammar; formal analyses of
Historically, the field traces to philosophers like Frege and Russell and gained a rigorous formal basis in