Meaning in Language Analysis

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент фундаментальной и прикладной лингвистики

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 4 модуль

Преподаватель

Гладкова Анна Николаевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is aimed to introduce the students to the theory of meaning and mothodology of linguistic analysis known as the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

Learning Objectives

• demonstrate understanding of some of the main methods and approaches to meaning analysis used in linguistics today
• describes and explains semantic issues arising in a number of domains: emotion terminology, natural kind terms, speech acts, artifacts.
• describes and explains ways in which words and grammatical constructions of a language may be culture-related
• employs one particular method of semantic analysis (the reductive paraphrase or NSM method) across a range of semantic domains
• applies corpus techniques in the analysis of meaning
• demonstrates understanding of meaning analysis in applied linguistics and other disciplines

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knows the basic principles of lexical organization, the main parameters of semantic variations in lexicon
• Students can analyse the semantic structure of a polysemantic word.
• - develop knowledge about semantic universals in language and their universal syntactic properties
• applies Minimal Language based on semantic universals and semantic molecules to fomulate messages and ideas in language teaching, cross-cultural communication, or other areas
• demonstrates understanding of the nature of meaning and its role in language
• demonstrates understanding of some of the main methods and approaches to meaning analysis used in linguistics today
• demonstrateы understanding of some of the main methods and approaches to meaning analysis used in linguistics today
• employs one particular method of semantic analysis (the reductive paraphrase or NSM method) across a range of semantic domains
• describeы and explainы semantic issues arising in a number of domains: emotion terminology, interjections, natural kind terms, speech acts
• describes and explains ways in which words and grammatical constructions of a language may be culture-related
• applies corpus techniques in the analysis of meaning
• describes and explains semantic issues arising in a number of domains: emotion terminology, interjections, natural kind terms, speech acts
• employs one particular method of semantic analysis (the reductive paraphrase or NSM method) across a range of semantic domains,

Course Contents

• Meaning Analysis: issues and overview
• Issues and main traditions in semantics
• NSM and other contemporary approaches
• The semantics of emotions
• The semantics of speech acts
• The semantics of animals and artifacts
• Applications of semantics
• Semantic Projects

Assessment Elements

• Class participation
  Class participation, studying class and reading materials, doing tasks provided by the lecturer
• Project
• Presentation
  Prepare a 5 minute presentation on the basis of your project
• Test

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.2 * Class participation + 0.1 * Presentation + 0.4 * Project + 0.3 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 9783110368505 - Heusinger, Klaus; Maienborn, Claudia; Portner, Paul - Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods - 2019 - De Gruyter Mouton - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2034463 - nlebk - 2034463
• Bayer, J., & Struckmeier, V. (2017). Discourse Particles : Formal Approaches to Their Syntax and Semantics. Berlin: De Gruyter. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1466775
• Davis, S., & Gillon, B. S. (2004). Semantics : A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=151422
• Kurdi, M. Z. (2017). Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 2 : Semantics, Discourse and Applications. London, UK: Wiley-ISTE. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1642577
• Mansfield-Richardson, V. (1994). A Study of Semantics in Mass Communication Theory. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=eric&AN=ED375451
• Semantic analysis : a practical introduction, Goddard, C., 2011
• Wierzbicka, A. (2003). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics : The Semantics of Human Interaction (Vol. 2nd ed). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=390986
• Wierzbicka, A. (2015). A semantic basis for linguistic typology. Australia, Australia/Oceania: Languages of Russian Culture. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E640DE7
• Wierzbicka, A. (2015). Semantic Primes and Linguistic Typology. Australia, Australia/Oceania: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.44EC524F
• Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages , and cultures, Goddard, C., 2014

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Zimmermann, T. E., & Sternefeld, W. (2013). Introduction to Semantics : An Essential Guide to the Composition of Meaning. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=604253

Authors

• Патракова Ева Павловна
• Merkulova Edita Nikolaevna
• Gladkova Anna Nikolaevna