Meaning in Language

ANG-V2

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Beschreibung

Typically, linguists distinguish two branches that study meaning. Semantics, the older of the two disciplines, is traditionally said to analyze context-independent meaning, whereas pragmatics, the younger one, deals with meaning in context. In this course, we will discuss notions and approaches that more or less clearly belong to one of the two fields, but also some that seem to straddle the often somewhat blurry boundary that is sometimes called the “semantics/pragmatics divide”. More specifically, we will be concerned with issues such as semantic features and componential analysis, prototype semantics and categorization, frame semantics and meaning construction, deixis, reference, speech act theory, different types of implicatures, etc. In addition, we will look into the relationships that structure the English vocabulary on the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes (e.g. semantic opposites, collocations), and examine how they emerge and become consolidated and thus influence our interpretation of linguistic input as well as our language production (cf. e.g. the notions of lexical priming, semantic prosody).

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Ort: nicht angegeben
Zeiten: Fr. 12:00 - 14:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Freitag, 17.04.2020 12:00 - 14:00
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)

Studienbereiche

• Veranstaltungen > Anglistik; Englisch > Sprachwissenschaft > Bachelor
• Courses in English > Language and Literary Studies