Guia docente 2011_12 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
0.- Introduction.	The role and function of semantics and pragmatics in English linguistics. Conversation analysis and related disciplines. Key terms: discourse, speech, text, orality.
1.- Basic concepts of analysis and description.	Meaning and human communication: natural, non-natural, unintentional and intentional, coded and non-coded, linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual. Meaning and interaction.
2.- Semantics.	Semantic theory. Basic concepts and approaches. Grammar and semantics. Truth values. Lexical semantics. Propositional semantics. Literal meaning. Inference and entailment. Semantic equivalence. Semantics and pragmatics.
3.- Pragmatics.	Pragmatic theory. Basic concepts and approaches. Sentence and utterance. Classes of context. Pragmatic factors in information processing. Pragmatics and the interpretation of messages. Explicit and implied meaning. Presupposition and implicature. Conversational pragmatic models. Language as a social and communicative act.
4.- Conversation analysis.	Main characteristics of the oral discourse. Main methods of description and analysis. Interaction, turn-taking. Topics. Settings. Conventions in transcription and analysis of conversations. The transaction of meaning.