AL 5315 Semantics and Pragmatics

(3 semester hours)
After completing this course, students will be able to explain and discuss relationships between form and meaning at various levels of language. They will be able to explain the difference between meaning and reference; describe and identify homonymy, polysemy, and ambiguity; analyze and describe word meanings, sentence meanings, utterance meanings and speech act functions; identify and describe presuppositions, entailments, implicature and ellipsis; identify components of meaning and write clear definitions based on componential analysis.

Prerequisite:

AL 4410b Principles of Grammatical Analysis