LINGUIST 206
Semantics and Pragmatics
Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for LINGUIST 206.
Description
Course overview
This course provides an introduction to a wide range of issues of contemporary relevance to the study of meaning.
The semantics part selects topics from structural, truth-conditional and cognitive semantics. Topics to be covered may include word, sentence and utterance meaning, denotation, reference and sense, various sense relations, componential analysis, ambiguity and vagueness and truth conditions/values.
The pragmatics part deals with some of the central topics in pragmatics such as the domain of pragmatics, conversational implicature, conventional implicature and speech acts.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Availability 2020
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Professor Yan Huang
Reading/Texts
Huang, Y. (2014). Pragmatics. (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics). 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.
Reading lists, one for semantics and one for pragmatics, will be provided.
Points
LINGUIST 206: 15 points
Prerequisites
LINGUIST 100 or 103
Restrictions
LINGUIST 302