Semantic analysis (linguistics)
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In linguistics, semantic analysis is the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings. It also involves removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible. The elements of idiom and figurative speech, being cultural, are often also converted into relatively invariant meanings in semantic analysis. Semantic lexis is also known as the pragmatic meaning.
With the availability of enough material to analyze, semantic analysis can be used to catalog and trace the style of writing of specific authors.
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