English Semantics And Pragmatics Course

The lesson deals with linguistic meaning, types of basic elements to make reference in characterizing the meanings of words or other linguistic units, types of relevant data, and how to evaluate the various possible types of data and how word meanings change. Theoretical topics covered include categorization construal acquisition of concepts metaphor blending metonymy compositionality mental spaces lexical semantic change. Various semantic domains will be examined in connection with these topics, eg color terms, kinship, dimensional terms, verb meaning but two domains will be treated in depth from various perspectives: the semantics of everyday concepts, and the semantics of space and motion. For pragmatics theoretical frameworks are speech acts, implicature, presupposition, relevant theory, cooperative principles, politeness principles, references, deixies, contexts and co-texts. The final project is documenting the short functional texts that are found in the public areas to interpret the communication functions.

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Being able to classify linguistic devices such as appropriate dictions and utterances both in spoken and written texts

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Being able to illustrate the contextual sociocultural phenomena based the concepts and theories of word meaning and speaker’s meaning

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Being able to examine the appropriate approaches in meaning to analyze spoken and written text

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Being able to respond various kind problem solving of word meaning and speaker‘s meaning in spoken and written text