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U1 - BASIC SEMANTIC NOTIONS

Inma Campo semantics Grado Superior Spanish

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MODULAR THEORY OF LANGUAGE: different types of linguistic knowledge and analysis.
- LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IS MODULARIZED
  - SYNTAX
  - PHONOLOGY
  - SEMANTICS
    - PART OF: LINGUISTICS: meaning in language
      - SEMIOTICS: meaning in any sign system
  - SOUND - phonology - syntax - semantics - thought
  - linguistic knowledge allows speakers to know:
    - synonymy
      - ambiguity
    - contradiction
      - entailment
    - MEANING: conveyed using any types of sign. Product of all linguistic levels: theory of COGNITIVE GRAMMAR
      - SIGNIFICATION: process of creating / interpreting symbols
        SAUSSURE: study of meaning / study of the use of sign systems and their use or meaning
        SEMIOTICS: relationship between
        a sign: SIGNIFIER
        the object it represents: SIGNIFIED
TYPES OF SIGN DEPENDING ON THE RELATION SIGN / OBJECT
- ICON: portrait / real subject - diagram of an engine / real engine
  - INDEX: SMOKE / index of fire: casual relationship
    - SYMBOL: insignia / military ranks. Words / verbal symbols
- LANGUAGE: sign system