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Semantics or the theory of meaning is a science that deals with the meaning of symbols , in particular the building blocks of natural languages that serve for communication , or words and sentences... The study of words is the oldest part of semantics, and includes component analysis and the study of semen and word fields and meaning at the morphological level, such as inflections and derivations , where morphemes as the smallest units of meaning are still studied. The sentence semantics was developed later and focuses on the meaning of larger syntactic units: phrases , sentences and, at the highest level, whole texts and discourses ... The same rules apply to communication at a cross-cultural level as to communication within one's own culture, for example when it comes to terminology and the creation of scientific models. One of the conditions is that people agree on certain concepts as well as on the associated (word) meanings. In order to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts, it..