ENGLISH SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS (4 SCU)
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: explain the basic concepts of semantics and pragmatics; give examples of semantics and pragmatics concepts in daily communication; analyze the daily used language based on semantics and pragmatics concepts.
Topics:
- The Meaning of Meaning;
- Referring, denoting, expressing;
- Truth an inference;
- The logic of truth;
- Word senses;
- Lexical Sense Relation;
- Components of lexical meaning;
- Grice theory of implicature;
- Pragmatic inference;
- Indirect speech act;
- Conventional implicature;
- Use-conditional meaning;
- Review and Final Project.
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