In
linguistics,
semantic analysis is the process of relating
syntactic structures, from the levels of
phrases,
clauses,
sentences and
paragraphs to the level of the
writing as a whole, to their language-independent
meanings. It also involves removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible. The elements of
idiom and
figurative speech, being cultural, are often also converted into relatively invariant meanings in semantic analysis.