Study of language

Study of language

1. Semantics

   • Study of meaning
   • Areas
     • Symbol
       • A, $
     • Words
     • Pragmatics
       • Jokes, irony
     • Epistemology
       • Semantics in a fundamental way
     • Ambiguity
       • More than one meaning
     • Semantic
       • Lexicon
     • Lexicology
       • Diachronical/Synchronic

2. Pragmatics

   • Language use in context
   • Speech acts
     • 3 parts of utterances
       • Lowtionary, illocutiionary, perlocutionary
   • Felicity conditions
     • Preparatory
       • Status or authority
       • Sincerity conditions
       • Sincerity
   • Cooperative principle
     • Duality
       • Thruthful
       • Quantity
   • Relevance
     • Assertion, preposition, entailments
   • Politeness principle
     • Positive
     • Negative