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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

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

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Quanitification

Cognitive semantics: Meaning and conceptual structures

Lexical word structure II

Conceptual metaphors and metonymy

Semantic networks

Context-sensitive lexical structure II: Frame Semantics (advanced)

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Semantics and pragmatics: Meaning through interaction

Meaning and discourse

Conversational implicature

Schemata and scripts

Meaning and variation

Linguistic politeness

Dialects and sociolects

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