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Semantics

Class at Faculty of Education |
OIBA4A043B

Annotation

The aim of the course is familiarising students with a broad variety of meaning encoding see mainly from the semantic and pragmatic perspevtive. The main focus is on word meaning. The use of practical everyday examples is emphasised.

Topic 1: Types and modes of meaning; Compositionality; Lexical and grammatical meaning; Contextual variability of meaning; Theoretical approaches to lexical meaning

Topic 2: Meaning and concept; Mental representations of categories; Prototypes

Topic 3: Paradigmatic sense relations; Identity vs opositness

Topic 4: Syntagmatic relations; Collocability; Grammatical semantics

Topic 5: Extension of meaning; Metaphor, metonymy; Meaning change and shift