UCJNNP07 Semantics and Pragmatics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (lecturer)
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Timetable
Fri 13:55–14:40 PrPed3
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
UCJNNP07/A: Fri 14:45–15:30 PrPed3, V. Kotůlková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods of semantic and pragmatic analyses. It aims at word and prototype semantics, cognitive semantics and sentence and text semantics. The second part of the course pragmatics will be introduced as a linguistic discipline analyzing the meaning of whole texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to semantics
    2. Signs, lexical and current meaning
    3. Word semantics, meaning relations
    4. Mental lexicon. Words in our head and words in a dictionary
    5. Reference theory. Language and world, coreference relations
    6. Sentence and text semantics, frame theory
    7. Pragmatic semantics
    8. Introduction to pragmatics
    9. Deixis
    10. Conversational implicatures, presuppositions
    11. Speech acts
    12. Conversational structures
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Active participation in seminars
Final written and oral examination
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2021.
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