مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

This study investigates some semantic differences that occur between English language and Arabic language. It differentiates between sets of related vocabulary showing how each language divides up particular fields of lexemes. The study centered on the theory of semantic fields since it describes words as related units of lexemes that are grouped in a particular way. In order to find any differences and/or similarities in using the same semantic fields across the two languages in a semantic way, componential analysis is used to break down the meaning of the words into several parts identified as semantic components. The research also focuses on the notion that a word doesn't have meaning on its own except in relation to other words or lexemes such as lexical sense relations which are classified into synonymy, antonym and hyponymy. This will be done by constructing two questionnaires in Arabic and English to conclude that the words of one language are classified in a way that is certainly different from the other language the research also determines that words that are clustered in one semantic field may share some aspects of meaning but not all. In this case this study deals with interrelated networks of structures rather than random lists of words