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Understanding Semantics. A Textbook for Students of Linguistics and Translation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alhaj, Ali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Diplomica Verlag GmbH : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Understanding Semantics. A Textbook for Students of Linguistics and Translation; DEDICATION; PREFACE; CONTENT; CHAPTER ONE SEMANTICS: IMPORTANT CONCEPTS; 1.1 Defining Semantics; 1.2 What does linguistic semantics deal with?; 1.3 What do semanticists do when they study meaning?; 1.4 Is semantics a separate modul?; 1.5 Semantics: A Critical & Historical background; 1.6 Can Semantics indeed be very important?; 1.7 Types and Subfields of Semantics?; 1.8 Semantics and learners' linguistic behavior; 1.9 What is Semantics in a nutshell?; 1.10 Sense Relations; EXERCISE (1).
  • CHAPTER TWO SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS2.1 Defining Pragmatics; 2.2 Semantics and Pragmatics : Overlap; 2.3 Semiotics and Pragmatics; 2.4 History of Pragmatics; 2.5 What does pragmatics include?; 2.6 Speech Acts Theory; 2.7 Felicity condition; 2.8 Conversational Implicature; 2.9 The Cooperative Principle; 2.10 The Politeness Principles; 2.11 Principle of Relevance; 2.12 Deixis; 2.13 J.R. Searle's Classifications of Speech Acts; EXERCISE (2); CHAPTER THREE SENTENCES, UTTERANCES AND PROPOSITIONS; 3.1 Defining Sentence; 3.2 Defining Utterance; 3.3 Defining Proposition.
  • 3.4 Sentence, Utterance, and Proposition3.5 Differences between a Sentence and an Utterance; 3.6 Six Aspects of Utterance Meaning; 3.7 Differences between a Sentence and a Proposition; 3.8 Analytic Sentence; 3.9 Synthetic Sentence; 3.10 Contradictory Sentence; 3.11 Entailment; 3.12 Paraphrase; 3.13 Sense and reference; 3.14 Denotations and Connotations; 3.15 The Distinction Between Denotation and Connotation; EXERCISE (3); CHAPTER FOUR AMBIGUITY; 4.1 Defining Ambiguity; 4.2 Lexical Ambiguity; 4.3 Structural Ambiguity; 4.4 Syntactic Ambiguity with Adjectives and Participles.
  • 4.5 Lexical and Structural Ambiguity4.6 Types of Syntactic Ambiguity; 4.7 Other Ambiguous Constrictions; 4.8 Syntactic Ambiguity of Noun+ Noun + Modifier; 4.9 Syntactic Ambiguity of Verb + Noun + Modifier; 4.10 Ambiguity Arising out of Bracketing; 4.11 The Phenomenon of Ambiguity Persistence; 4.12 The Principal Ways to Avoid Ambiguity; EXERCISE (4); CHAPTER FIVE LEXICAL MEANING: IDIOMS, COLLOCATIONS 5.1 Defining Idioms; 5.2 Some More Examples of English Idioms & their Meanings; 5.3 Defining Collocations; 5.4 Types of Collocations; 5.5 The Three Kinds of Collocational Restrictions.
  • 5.6 Proverbs5.7 Examples of some English Proverbs; EXERCISE (5); SELECTED REFERENCES.