Guia docente 2017_18
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
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.- Types of meaning: natural, non-natural; unintentional and intentional; coded and non-coded; linguistic, meta-linguistic, paralinguistic and contextual.
2.2.- The meaning of "meaning".
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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