ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lexical Semantics, German Shepherd, Deixis
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Pragmatics: social and affective meaning, speech acts, discourse analysis, deixis, maxims of conversation, greeting rituals, case study: ordering a drink, semantics meaning of utterances in a strictly linguistic sense. The meanings of words: referent huge) their) Structural semantics 3: denotations and connotation: denotation, meaning is: primary, logical, informative, aim is: descriptive accuracy, connotation, meaning is: secondary, implied, affective, aim is: persuasion or influence, you see connotation is music, lyrics, acts. Affective meaning: the emotional content of speech, e. g, he accidently ran down a pedestrian, he killed an innocent person with his car, e. g, i worked hard today, i toiled and laboured all day. Speech acts: utterance that perform an action, ordering, proclaiming, declaring, wagering, warning, warning, promising, daring, threatening, many others. Discourse - a series of connected utterance such as a conversation, speech, play, or other communication event. Discourse analysis discovering the rules of discourse: once upon a time there lived a young prince who was always sad.
