Course syllabus

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SEMESTER 2, 2019
LINGUIST 206 - Semantics and Pragmatics

• Course Coordinator 

Yan Huang - yan.huang@auckland.ac.nz

• Teacher

Yan Huang - yan.huang@auckland.ac.nz

• Course delivery format

2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of tutorial

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Summary of Course Description              

Semantics and Pragmatics

This course provides an introduction to a wide range of issues of contemporary relevance to the study of meaning. The semantics part selects topics from lexical, structural, and truth-conditional semantics. Topics to be covered may include word, sentence and utterance meaning, denotation, reference and sense, various sense relations, ambiguity and vagueness, and truth conditions/values. The pragmatics part deals with some of the central topics in pragmatics such as the domain of pragmatics, conversational implicature, conventional implicature and speech acts.

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