| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| THIS SUBJECT WILL BE TAUGHT THROUGH LECTURES, AT THE END OF WHICH CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS WILL BE ENCOURAGED. AFTER EACH LEARNING UNIT, A QUESTIONNAIRE WILL BE GIVEN AND DISCUSSED IN CLASS, THROUGH A POWER POINT PRESENTATION. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination. |
| Bibliografia |
| Cruse, D.A. (1986) Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press. Cruse, D.A. (2000) Meaning in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press |
| Continguts |
| I. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: 1.1 Communication. 1.2 Semiotics: some basic notions. 1.3 Language and other communicative channels. 1.4 Characteristcs of linguistic signs. 1.5 Approaches to the study of meaning. 1.6 The linguistic study of meaning in language. 1.7 Branches of the study of meaning in language. II. LEXICAL SEMANTICS 2. Lexical Semantics: 2.1 The nature of word meaning. 2.2 The major problems of lexical semantics. 2.3 Approaches to lexical semantics. 3. Contextual variability of word meaning: 3.1 Aspects of distinctness. 3.2 Senses. 3.3 Varieties of polysemy. 3.4 Between polysemy and monosemy. 4. Word meaning and concepts. 4.1 The nature of concepts. 4.2 Domains. 5. Paradigmatic relations of inclusion and identity. 5.1 The nature of sense relations. 5.2 Paradigmatic relations of identity and inclusion. 6. Paradigmatic relations of exclusion and opposition. 6.1 Incompatibility and co-taxonymy. 6.2 Opposites. |
| Objetius |
| After giving an account of the importance of meaning for language communication, students are introduced to the main topics related to words'meaning (lexical semantics) such as synonymy, homonymy, polysemy, opposites. |
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