studies:graduation:final_examination:topics:ma-english:43
final examination topics: MA, English: Semantics, Vocabulary and Discourse in English
topics
- Semantic (lexical) relations among words
- Semantic relations among sentences; their relationship to lexical relations
- The place of words in language: mental lexicon, word stock; kinds of word
- Words and larger units in dictionaries
- Lexical decomposition and its limits
- Types of meaning
- Reference and deixis
- The impact of syntactic structure on interpretation
- Thematic/Semantic roles
- Pragmatics: speech acts and conversational strategies
- Problems of the relationship between language, meaning and thought
- Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic acceptability
suggested readings
- Aitchison, J. Words in the mind. An introduction to the mental lexicon. 2nd ed. Blackwell, 1994
- Brown, G. – Yule G. Discourse analysis, CUP, 1983
- Cruse, D. A. Lexical semantics, CUP, 1991
- Cruse, A. Meaning in language. An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. OUP, 2000
- Fromkin, V. – Rodman R, An introduction to language, 5th ed. HBC, 1993
- Fromkin, V ed., Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory, Blackwell, 2000
- Hudson, R. Word meaning, Routledge, 1995
- Hurford J, – Heasley B, Semantics: a coursebook, CUP, 1983
- Jackson, H. Words and their meaning. Longman, 1996
- Jackson, H. – Amvela E Z Words, meaning and vocabulary, Continuum, 2007
- Jeffries, L. Meaning in English. An introduction to language study. Palgrave, 1998
- Katamba, F. English words, Routledge 1997
- Kempson, R. M. Semantic theory, CUP, 1977
- Leech, G. Principles of pragmatics, Longman, 1983
- Leech, G. Semantics, Penguin, 1981
- Levinson, S. Pragmatics, CUP, 1983
- Lyons, J. Semantics, CUP, 1977
- Napoli, D. J. Linguistics: An introduction, OUP, 1996
- O’Grady – Dobrovolsky – Katamba Contemporary linguistics, Longman, 1997
- O’Grady – Dobrovolsky – Aronoff Contemporary linguistics, SMP, 1993
- Pinker, S. The language instinct, Penguin, 1994
- Radford, A. et al. Linguistics. An introduction. CUP, 1st ed 1999, 2nd ed. 2009
- Saeed, J. I. Semantics, Blackwell, 1997
- Salkie, R. Text and discourse analysis, Routledge, 1995
- Taylor, J. R. Linguistic categorization, OUP 1995
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