Universität des Saarlandes Department 4.3 English Linguistics Professor Dr. N. R. Norrick
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Semantics : Exam Topics. Universität des Saarlandes Department 4.3 English Linguistics Professor Dr. N. R. Norrick Lecture: Semantics. Semantics Exam. What’s semantics? Linguistic meaning semantics between syntax and pragmatics semantics and adjacent disciplines: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Universität des SaarlandesUniversität des SaarlandesDepartment 4.3 English LinguisticsDepartment 4.3 English LinguisticsProfessor Dr. N. R. NorrickProfessor Dr. N. R. NorrickLecture: SemanticsLecture: Semantics
Semantics: Exam Topics
1 What’s semantics?
Linguistic meaningsemantics between syntax and pragmaticssemantics and adjacent disciplines:semasiology, semiotics, philology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology
Semantics Exam
2 Semantics as a discipline
synchronic Saussure (1916) Bréal (1883) Trier (1931) Porzig (1934) Firth (1935) “The technique of semantics”
3 Semantics in linguistic theories
StructuralismBehaviorismGenerative Grammar Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
4 Models of meaning
conduit model of communication (Reddy 1969) Shannon and Weaver (1949): Saussure (1916) dyadic model arbitraire du signe The semiotic triangle
5 Deixis (Indexicality)
Person, space, time Discourse deixis
6 Meaning properties
Meaningfulness Meaninglessness Tautology Anomaly Ambiguity Zeugma Depletion
7 Compositionality
Principle of Compositionality: Syncategorimaticity Non-compositional constructions
8 Lexical relations
Semantic fields Sense relations Synonymy Polysemy Homophony cf. Homonymy, Homography Hyponymy Inclusion Metonymy Antonymy: Graded (scalar) adjectives Complementaries Converses Incompatibles
9 Componential analysis
Features in Semantic Theory Psychologically real concepts vs. meta-language notation
Markerese in TG Projection Rules
10 Metaphor Traditional accounts original vs dead metaphor extended metaphor
Metaphor as ungrammatical structure Metaphor as anomaly Metaphor as figurative speech act Interactional theories of metaphor Cognitive Linguistic theories of metaphor
11 Semantic scripts
prototypes Prototype Effects in grammar: Scripts/Frames/Schemas/Cognitive Models inferences
12 Semantics and grammar
Grammatical categories Grammatical relations Semantic Case (Fillmore 1968, 1977) Sentence Type
13 Utterance Meaning
Uses of language Speech events, text types Presupposition Implicature The Cooperative Principle: The maxims Speech acts
14 Coherence
Thematic structure Information structure
