ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pragmatics, Conceptual System, Denotation

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac

Document Summary

Semantics (more abstract) and pragmatics (meaning of utterances in a social context) Lexical semantics: referent (concrete phenomena that words refer to. Could be concrete actions like eating and working. Also relational anto(cid:374)y(cid:373)s su(cid:272)h as (cid:862)pare(cid:374)t(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:272)hild(cid:863) or (cid:862)top(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:271)otto(cid:373) ;(cid:895) (cid:895: semantic properties (semantic domain that has many categories. Aim is persuasion or influence (used in metaphors, poetic speech and political speech) Metaphor is a kind of trope (analogical device: linking of semantic domains. Sport:work :: baseball : business: conceptual systems and metaphors. Ti(cid:373)e is a thi(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:449)e talk a(cid:271)out it as if it"s a physi(cid:272)al o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:862)you"re (cid:449)asti(cid:374)g your ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:862)you"re ru(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g out of ti(cid:373)e(cid:863)(cid:895) Argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is (cid:449)ar (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:862)defe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s(cid:863) (cid:862)atta(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s positio(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:863) shooti(cid:374)g do(cid:449)(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863)(cid:895) Pragmatics: meaning of linguistic meaning in social contexts, discourses analysis/ethnography pf speaking, speech acts (minimal units of analysis in conversational interactions. Such as a greeting, and apology, a command: speech events (higher unit of analysis.