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The 12 pages that link to Formal semantics, each with the reason it gives.

• PragmaticsCompared with: Its focus on encoded structure highlights what pragmatic analysis adds through use.

• Formal languageCompared with: Formal language describes which strings are valid; semantics specifies what those strings mean.

• SemanticsNarrower topic: It is the broader framework within which many compositional and model-based theories operate.

• Alfred TarskiRelated: Tarski made semantic notions such as truth precise by defining them relative to interpretations.

• Ordinary language philosophyCompared with: Its explicit semantic systems differ from the approach’s close examination of informal use.

• Philosophy of languageCompared with: It offers precise semantic models where broader philosophical inquiry also examines use and interpretation.

• FormalismRelated: It addresses the meaning that a purely syntactic account of mathematics sets aside.

• Cognitive linguisticsCompared with: Its focus on formal interpretation differs from cognitive linguistics’ emphasis on conceptualization and experience.

• Lexical semanticsRelated: It connects lexical meanings to compositional sentence interpretation and logical structure.

• EthnolinguisticsCompared with: Its emphasis on abstract truth conditions differs from ethnolinguistics’ cultural framing.

• Irene HeimNarrower topic: Heim’s work is a central part of this approach to meaning.

• Barbara H. ParteeNarrower topic: This is the field Partee helped establish within linguistics.