INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS. FINALS REVIEWER
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS. FINALS REVIEWER
Semantics and Pragmatics
Comprehensive study guide cross-referenced from your textbook, Module five notes, Register PowerPoint, and Exam Reviewer PDF.
Coverage: Semantics, Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Implicature. Figures of Speech. Language Register
SECTION ONE: SEMANTICS - Making Meaning with Words
SECTION ONE: SEMANTICS - Making Meaning with Words
CORE DEFINITION
Semantics is the branch of linguistics concerned with literal meaning - how words, phrases, and sentences encode and decode meaning. It studies timeless, context-free meaning. Sub-branches include formal semantics (logic, sense, reference), lexical semantics (word meanings and relations), and conceptual semantics (cognitive structure of meaning).