ENG508 Highlighted Handouts Set 2

Table of Contents

Lesson No.

Lesson Title

Topics

Pg. No.

Lesson No. 1

INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Definition of Semantics and Pragmatics The Borderline between Semantics and Pragmatics Sentence and Utterance Language and Logic The Explicit and the Implicit

Lesson No. 2

SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTICS

Semantics in Linguistics Semantics in a Model of Grammar Historical Semantics Semantics in Other Disciplines

Lesson No. 3

Semantics and Semiotics

IMPORTANT ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SEMANTICS

Reference and Sense Utterance, Sentence and Proposition Utterance, Sentence and Proposition -Activities Literal and Non-Literal Meaning

Lesson No. 4

THEORIES OF MEANING

What Is meaning?

Meaning Holism -Meaning within Language Idea Theory of Meaning Meanings Are out in the World Meaning of Sentences and Truth Condition Putting Meaning Together from Pieces – Compositional Theory

Lesson No. 5

KINDS OF MEANING

Linguistic/Conceptual Meaning Connotative/Referential Meaning Social Meaning Affective Meaning Reflective and Collocative Meaning Thematic Meaning

Lesson No. 6

MEANING, THOUGHT AND REALITY

Sense and Concepts Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Prototypes Linguistic Relativity The Language of Thought Hypothesis

Lesson No. 7

LEXICAL RELATIONS – I

What are Lexical Relations?

Words and Lexical Items Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning Homonym and Polysemy Synonyms and Antonyms

Lesson No. 8

LEXICAL RELATIONS – II

Hyponym Meronymy Causative Verbs and Agentive Nouns Colour Terms Core Vocabulary and Universal Lexemes

Lesson No. 9

LEXICAL SEMANTICS: FIELDS AND COLLOCATION

Pragmatic and Syntagmatic Relations – I Pragmatic and Syntagmatic Relations – II Semantic Fields Collocations Idioms

Lesson No. 10

SENTENCE RELATIONS AND TRUTH

Logic and Truth Propositional Logic Predicate Logic Entailment Truth Conditional Semantics

Lesson No. 11

PRESUPPOSITION

Two Approaches to Presupposition Presupposition Failure Presupposition Triggers Presupposition and Context

Lesson No. 12

SENTENCE SEMANTICS – I: SITUATIONS

Introduction: Classifying Situations Tense and Aspect Modality Mood Evidentiality

Lesson No. 13

SENTENCE SEMANTICS – II: PARTICIPANTS

Introduction: Classifying Participants Thematic Roles – I (Agent, Patient, Theme, Experiencer) Thematic Roles – II (Beneficiary, Instrument, Location, Goal, Source, Stimulus) Identifying Thematic Roles Problems with Thematic Roles

Lesson No. 14

SEMANTICS AND GRAMMAR

Formal Grammar Grammatical Categories Grammar and Lexicon Grammatical Relations Case Grammar

Lesson No. 15

FORMAL SEMANTICS TODAY

Diversity within Formal Semantics Relationship with other Varieties of Semantics Relationship with other Fields Semantics and Society - I Semantics and Society - II

Lesson No. 16

SEMANTICS AND DICTIONARY

Practical Dictionary Theoretical Dictionary Lexical Rules (Graded Accessibility) Types of Lexical Rules Other Observations about Lexical Rules

Lesson No. 17

INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS

What is Pragmatics?

Types of Pragmatics What Does Pragmatics Study? Pragmatics and Linguistics The Emergence of Pragmatics as a Distinct Field

Lesson No. 18

HISTORY OF PRAGMATIC

Development and Expansion of Pragmatics Pragmatics and Ordinary Language The Term ‘Pragmatics’ The Prehistory of Pragmatics Modern Pragmatics

Lesson No. 19

CONTEXT AND PRAGMATICS

Introduction to Context and Pragmatics

Background Knowledge Context Co-textual Context Exploring Context

Lesson No. 20

LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT: REFERENCE

Introduction to Reference Referring to the Context Outside: Exophora Referring to the Context Inside: Cohesion Grammatical Cohesion Lexical Cohesion