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Semantics » Focus and content

Semantics


Focus & Content

Basic notions

The linguistic sign
Reference and sense
Types of meaning


Ferdinand de Saussure


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Structure-oriented semantics: The meaning of words and sentences

Lexical word structure I
Meaning relations among words
Lexical ambiguity: Polysemy and Homonymy
Sense relations
Lexical fields
Semantic components vs. meaning postulates
Context-sensitive lexical structure I (advanced)
Event structures
Thematic relations
Sentence semantics (advanced)
Propositions and predicates
Meaning relations among sentences
The Principle of Compositionality
Gottlob Frege
Modality
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Quanitification


Cognitive semantics: Meaning and conceptual structures

Lexical word structure II
Prototypes
Conceptual metaphors and metonymy
Semantic networks
Context-sensitive lexical structure II: Frame Semantics (advanced)


George Lakoff

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Semantics and pragmatics: Meaning through interaction

Meaning and discourse
Deixis
Speech acts
Conversational implicature
Schemata and scripts
Meaning and variation
Linguistic politeness
Dialects and sociolects

Paul Grice

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