LINGUIST 206

Semantics and Pragmatics

Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for LINGUIST 206.

Description

An introduction to a wide range of issues of contemporary relevance to the study of meaning. The semantics part includes topics in structural, truth-conditional and cognitive semantics. The pragmatics part covers some of the basic topics in pragmatics.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for LINGUIST 206.

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Availability 2022

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