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The branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning.

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  • Accordingly Marty's semasiology is concerned with the complex unity (not identity) of
  • Thus we see that in his descriptive semasiology of emotives Marty puts forward a very important axiological thesis.
  • Thus, in working out a descriptive semasiology of statements Marty puts forward a very important ontological thesis.
  • In the nineteenth century the term “semasiology” (Semasiologie) was often used in reference to linguistic investigations concerning meaning.
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