Answer: B. Semantics deals with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations.
Step-by-step explanation:
- We should make a distinction between:
- semantics, as the study of meaning, and
- the study of language structure at different levels, from small units of speech to the entire conversation, which is called linguistics.
- Semantics is a linguistic discipline which is devoted to the study of meaning. Semantics is concerned with the meaning at all levels - words, phrases, sentences, and larger units (texts). For instance, compare the following words: 'last stop' and 'destination'. Their meaning is quite similar, but semanticists are interested in exploring their shades of meaning.