In Canada, the civil service at the federal level is known as the Public Service of Canada, with each of the ten provincial governments as well as the three territorial governments also having their own separate civil services.
In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and larger units of discourse (termed texts, or narratives). The study of semantics is also closely linked to the subjects of representation, reference and denotation.emantics as a field of study also has significant ties to various representational theories of meaning including truth theories of meaning, coherence theories of meaning, and correspondence theories of meaning.
1. (Linguistics) of or relating to meaning or arising from distinctions between the meanings of different words or symbols. 2. (Philosophy) of or relating to semantics. 3. (Logic) logic concerned with the interpretation of a formal theory, as when truth tables are given as an account of the sentential connectives.