Semantics in Linguistics

Semantics in Linguistics

1. Semantics and semiotics

   • Saussure
     • Signified
     • Signifier
   • Pierce
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     • Index
     • Symbol

2. Three challenges in doing semantics

   • Circularity
   • Linguistic knowledge/enciclopedic knowledge
   • Context

3. Meeting the challenges

   • Metalenguage
   • Lexicon
   • Conventional or literal
   • Pragmatics

4. Semantics in a model of grammar

   • Word meaning and sentence meaning
     • Lexicon
     • Productivity
     • Recursivity
     • Compositional
   • Components of grammar
     • Phonology
     • Syntax
     • Semantics

5. Some importants assumptions

   • Reference and sense
   • Utterances, sentences, and prepositions
   • Literal and non-literal meaning
     • Non-literal
       • Metaphor, irony, metonymy, litotes, and so on.
       • Literal language theory
   • Semantics and pragmatics
     • Sentence mening
     • Speaker meaning

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