| Spring 2012 | ENGL 620.1 | T | 6:00 - 8:40 | |
BettyJ Birner |
Title: SEMANTICSCourse Description: Survey of linguistic approaches to meaning, with focus on connotative and denotative word meanings, sentence and beyond-the-sentence meanings, and semantic change. Links between linguistic semantics and language pedagogy, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
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| Detailed Course Description: Survey of linguistic approaches to word and sentence meaning. Types and sources of meaning, current theories of semantics and semantic relationships, representation of semantic meaning, tracking of meaning through extended discourse, and links between semantics and pragmatics. Class format is lecture and discussion. |
| Course Requirements: Two exams, 30% each; abstract of research paper, 10%; research paper applying the principles from class to a problem or text of the student’s choosing, 30%. Vigorous and enthusiastic class participation required. |
| Required Texts: Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics |
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