Educational guide 2014_15
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grado en Lenguas Extranjeras
 Asignaturas
  Significado y discurso del primer idioma extranjero: Inglés
   Contenidos
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.
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