Guia docente 2018_19
Facultad de Filología y Traducción
Grao en Linguas Estranxeiras
 Materias
  Significado e discurso do primeiro idioma estranxeiro: Inglés
   Contidos
Tema Subtema
1. Introduction 1.1. Functions of language and human communication
1.2. Linguistics and meaning
1.3. Grammar and semantics: form, function and meaning
1.4. Lexical and syntactic ambiguity
1.5. The Semantics-Pragmatics boundary in Linguistics
2. Meaning and discourse 2.1. The meaning of "meaning"
2.2. Types of meaning: natural, non-natural; unintentional and intentional; coded and non-coded; linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual
2.3. Classes of context: physical, linguistic, social and situational, shared and mutual, encyclopaedic
2.4. Language and discourse: conversation and interaction, main features
3. Semantics 3.1. Semantics: Main concepts and approaches
3.2. Lexical semantics and propositional semantics
3.3. Semantic meaning
3.4. Literal meaning and figurative meaning
3.5. Equivalence, entailment and inference
3.6. Propositional disambiguation and enrichment
4. Pragmatics 4.1. Pragmatics: Basic concepts
4.2. Utterance, sentence and proposition
4.3. Pragmatics and cognition: explicit, presupposed and implied meaning
4.4. Pragmatic interpretation
4.5. Meaning and speech acts
4.6. Politeness strategies and interpersonality.
4.7. From Pragmatics to Discourse Analysis
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