Lexicography – the art and science of dictionary-making – and semantics – the study of meaning in language – are intertwined disciplines that illuminate how words are organised, defined and used.

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...

Delivering written peer support as a patient resource during hematopoietic stem cell transplant: Pros, cons, and clinician feedback on a new website. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ...

Two different regions of the brain are critical to integrating semantic information while reading, which could shed more light on why people with aphasia have difficulty with semantics, according to ...

Bleaching as a type of semantic change is often mentioned in works on grammaticalization, but very few studies focus on how bleaching occurs. The literature on hyperbole as a figure of speech notes ...

Semantics = theory of meaning, yet most define semantic search with a focus on intent. “Meaning” is not the same as “intention.” Learn more. Since 2013, Google has been gradually developing into a 100 ...

How does meaning arise from matter? This is Part 2 of a four-part series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Part 1, I argued that meaning emerges from relations among neural patterns, ...