[...] '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), 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), 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), 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), Pag. 513