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Semantics and Pragmatics

  • Semantics
    • Types of meaning: descriptive, emotive, phatic
    • Sense relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy
    • Ambiguity, entailment, truth conditions
    • Formal semantics: logic, quantifiers, functions
    • Componential analysis, compositionality
  • Pragmatics
    • Language use, context, speech acts
    • Deixis, presupposition, implicature
    • Gricean maxims, discourse, politeness

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