Guia docente 2018_19
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grado en Lenguas Extranjeras
 Asignaturas
  Significado y discurso del primer idioma extranjero: Inglés
   Contenidos
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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