[...] 'semantics', in which we studied the relation of these features [phonetics] to the features of meaning, showing that a certain type of speech-sound was uttered in certain types of situations and led the hearer to perform certain types of response.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.74

When the phonology of a language has been established, there remains the task of telling what meanings are attached to the several phonetic forms.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.138

Sometimes we may be unable to decide whether phonetically like forms are identical in meaning.[...] This difficulty is part of the universal difficulty of semantics: the practical world is not a world of clear-cut distinctions.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.160

'Semantics', from 'semantic' (pertaining to meaning). These words are less clumsy than 'semasiology', 'semasiological'. Literally, then, semantics is the study of meaning. If one disregards the speech-forms and tries to study meaning or meanings in the abstract, one is really trying to study the universe in general; the term 'semantics' is sometimes attached to such attempts. If one studies speech-forms and their meanings, semantics is equivalent to the study of grammar and lexicon; in this sense I have defined it in the text.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.513