Guia docente 2013_14 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contenidos

Tema	Subtema
1.- Introduction.	The role and function of semantics and pragmatics in English linguistics. Conversation analysis and related disciplines. Key terms: discourse, speech, text, orality.
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.
3.- 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.
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.