Guia docente 2014_15 Facultad de Filología y Traducción

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1.- Introduction.	The role and function of semantics and pragmatics in English linguistics. Discourse, speech, text, orality.
2.- Basic concepts of analysis and description. Meaning. Kinds of meaning.	Types of meaning: natural, non-natural, unintentional and intentional, coded and non-coded, linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual. Conversation and interaction.
3.- Semantics.	Semantics: Main concepts and approaches. Grammar and semantics. Lexical semantics and propositional semantics. Literal meaning, inference, equivalence and entailment. Semantics and pragmatics.
4.- Pragmatics.	Pragmatics: Basic concepts. Utterance, sentence proposition. Explicit, presupposed and implied meaning. Main pragmatic models of discourse interpretation.