Variously located in logic, linguistics, philosophy and
communication research, the study of how and what a sign,
symbol, message or
system means to an observer. For some, semantics is that branch of semiotics (the study of human
behavior in the process of communication) which is concerned with the relationship between signs and
referents or with the
constraint imposed by non-linguistic phenomena on choices among linguistic expressions. (
Krippendorff )
