Semantics is the study and analysis of how language is used figuratively and literally to produce meaning. Semanticsemantics seeks to describe how words are used-not to prescribe how they should be used. Examples of semantics: A toy block could be called a block, a cube, a toy.
There is nothing semantical that is not already prescriptive for or towards particular meaning. Under your logic, a word could meaning anything at any time; you omit the dimension of the actual social deployment of language, which is in fact the only use of language.
Can you explain why those with Autism have such a very hard time with some types of Metaphor. It's not that they don't Recognize a metaphor when they hear it, they simple cannot see any such relation. Whatever mapping occurs in the Non-Austistic Brain to create a correspondence either Missing or Mapped Differently in the Austistic.
The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy comprehension in children with autism GABRIELLA RUNDBLAD King’s College London, UK DAGMARA ANNAZ University College London, UK
