LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cooperative Principle, Translation Studies, Connotation
20 Mar 2018
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Define semantics and what it means to know and produce sentences in connection to their meaning; Identify concepts such as lexical semantics, sentential semantics, and pragmatics; Analyze semantic properties of morphemes and lexemes to derive meaning; Classify lexemes into relational categories to evaluate semantic relationships; Determine thematic roles and the relationship to each other to reveal meaning of sentences; and. Analyze key elements in pragmatics and discourse and how they influence meaning. Semantic relations every word in a language contains a list of characteristics, properties or layers of meaning that differentiate its meaning from other words. Semantic features are helpful in defining how words are similar or different from each other. Synonyms are words or expressions that have the same meaning in most contexts. It would be inefficient for a language to have two words with exactly the same meaning. Antonyms are words or phrases that are opposite with respect to some feature of their meaning.
