2.- Basic concepts of analysis and description. Meaning. Kinds of meaning. |
Meaning and human communication: natural, non-natural, unintentional and intentional, coded and non-coded, linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual. Meaning and interaction. |
4.- 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. Speech act theory. Language as a social and communicative act. |