LING 3P94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coreference, Deixis, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
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Semantics deals with meaning of words and pragmatics deals with meaning as well. How do you rephrase the word mean in the following examples. Mary means well or i mean no harm . Smoke means fire or that red flag means danger . Meaning means x (soporific) is equivalent to y (tending to produce sleep) Both x and y are words, so in this case meaning means that which is explicable in terms of other words. Intentional/speaker meaning deals with intentionality (language & speaker) pragmatics (speech acts) Indexical meaning deals with indexicality (language & environment) pragmatics (indices) Conceptual/cognitive/descriptive meaning deals with linguistic meaning expressed in terms of other words (within language) semantics. Parker identifies 3 areas of semantic studies. Semantic theories must account for our knowledge to understand the following phenomena that involve relationships between words or sentences. Does not match to our knowledge of reality. John was looking for the glasses or visiting professors can be a nuisance .
