LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paul Grice, Tacit Knowledge, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
9 Dec 2016
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Semantics : studies linguistic meaning & how expressions convey meaning. Lexical: deals with the meaning of words and other lexical expressions. Compositional: deals with phrasal meaning and how they are assembled. Pragmatics : studies the ways people use language in actual conversation. The lexical items themselves leave the question open. However, b can use that utterance to mean yes or no, depending on the context. Semantics is concerned with linguistics meaning, while pragmatics is concerned with speaker meaning. Underlying claim: linguistic meaning is part of individual"s tacit knowledge of language (i. e. grammar); speaker meaning is broader than that (use), including aspects of social & other cognition. A relationship of incompatibility between 2 terms with respect to some given dimension of contrast. Some words have more than 1 antonym (e. g girl) Some words do not have a clear antonym (e. g library, corresponding, angry)
