Demos=people. Graphia=writing. Therefore demography is writing about or studying people.
Achille Guillard
Demography comes from two Greek words : demos, which means people, and graphos which means to write or draw : it literally means writing about the people
although the two words are different, the semantics are the same.
Lexical semantics is a branch of semantics which deal with meanings and relations of words. This also includes the synonyms, antonyms and hyponyms of different words.
Demography is the branch of sociology which studies the characteristics of human populations.
Achille Guillard
Semantics
Demography.
Semantics.
An interest in the study of household and family units has always been prominent in historical demography
The term "demography" was first used by French philosopher and statistician Achille Guillard in his 1855 book "Elements of Human and Social Science."
why do we need demography?
As with any difference of ideals, linguists (pragmatics) and general semantics may argue on a word or phrase if both perceive the words individually. Linguistics focuses on the structure with the sound, sight, grammatical usage and the like while the semantics are only looking at the word for its meaning. Yet it is important to understand that the semantics of a word or phrase is only a part of linguistics and an individual can be both a semanticist and a linguist.
Demography comes from two Greek words : demos, which means people, and graphos which means to write or draw : it literally means writing about the people
Dieter Stein has written: 'The semantics of syntactic change' -- subject(s): Do (The English word), English language, Semantics, Syntax
My dad has a job in demography.
The word "semantics" means the interpretation of the meaning of a word or sentence. So if someone says you are just with semantics they are probably trying to tell you that you are avoiding the real issue involved in whatever it was you were talking about. So, instead of responding to the substance of what was said you may be focusing instead on arguing over the meaning of some word or phrase. People often quibble over semantics when confronted with a difficult or unpleasant topic to avoid dealing directly with it.