These are daily experiences:
1. Sometimes we are not sure of the meaning we get from others
2. We are concerned about getting our own messages to others.
3. Sometimes we find pleasures in jokes (double meanings, ambiguity) [productive/receptive vocabulary]
4. Commercial organizations spend a lot of effort and money on naming productions
5. Legal scholars argue about the interpretations
6. Literary scholars quarrel about the meaning of some poem or story.
* Semantics is the systematic study of meaning.
– Some common branches of semantics: Lexical semantics, cognitive semantics, semantic change, semiotics, etc.
Linguistics 