Educational guide 2015_16 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1.- Introduction.	Linguistics, semantics and pragmatics. Functions of language. Language and communication. Language and cognition.
2.- Meaning and Discourse.	Types of meaning: natural, non-natural; unintentional and intentional; coded and non-coded; linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual. Discourse, 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 descriptive and analytic approaches. Discourse analysis, an overview.