Words aren't simply sounds connected to meanings, but involve a hidden "middle layer" that might unlock a deeper ...

Word meaning, also known as semantics, focuses on the relationship between words and phrases and what they mean, their connotation.

Can we give language the same treatment? Do the meaning of words exist — and still matter — outside of their intended usage or context? This is the driving question of semantics.

This word map shows which parts of the brain responded as a single subject listened to a storyteller. The words tend to cluster by semantic category, as shown by color (for example, pink words are ...

Some words have had their established etymologic or common meanings distorted or ignored, becoming largely platitudes (eg, harmony, holistic, transformational), and scientific or technical terms ...

Melissa Bowerman, Systematizing Semantic Knowledge: Changes over Time in the Child's Organization of Word Meaning, Child Development, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 977-987 ...

Grammar and spelling can impact your message dramatically. Their, They're and there can get people scrabbling for dictionaries and thesauruses.

The two thick blue volumes sort roughly 920,000 words into 797,120 meanings and organize those meanings into 236,400 numbered categories and subcategories.

Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers.