SEMANTICS
by elinda herawati
1. Introduction to Semantics as a Scientific Discipline
1.1. • Basic ideas in Semantics
1.1.1. Sentences
1.1.2. Utterances
1.1.3. Propositions
1.2. • Meaning, sign and symbol
2. Types of Meaning
2.1. • What is meaning?
2.2. • Some Types of Meaning
2.2.1. Literal
2.2.2. Figurative
2.2.2.1. Metaphor
2.2.2.2. Metonymy
2.2.2.3. Synecdoche
2.2.3. Denotative
2.2.4. Connotative
2.3. • Leech’ Classification of Meaning
2.4. • Sentence/Word Meaning & Speaker Meaning
3. Semantic (Lexical) Fields
3.1. Collocations
3.2. Idioms
4. Semantics and the Dictionary
4.1. • Semantic universals
4.2. • Dictionary and its lexical entries
4.3. • How meanings are arranged in a lexical entry
5. Sentence relations
5.1. • Situation types
5.2. • Modality
5.3. • Evidentiality
6. Reference and Sense
6.1. • Naming
6.2. • Concepts,
6.3. • Meaning sense and reference
6.4. • Kinds of referents
6.5. • Equative sentence,
6.6. • Linguistic relativity
7. Semantics in Language processing and Language Acquisition
7.1. • How linguists study the way that people process presuppositions and implicatures
7.2. • The time-course of presupposition and implicature processing
7.3. • How linguists study the semantics of child language
7.4. • Development of presuppositions and implicatures in children
8. Lexical Semantics
8.1. Fields and Collocation
8.1.1. • Word forms
8.1.1.1. Lexeme
8.1.1.2. Lexicon
8.1.2. • Semantic field theory vs truth conditional semantics
8.1.3. • Paraphrases
8.1.4. • Entailments
8.1.5. • Contradictions
8.1.6. • Lexical relations
8.1.6.1. • Homonymy
8.1.6.2. • Polysemy
8.1.6.3. • Synonymy
8.1.6.4. • Hyponymy
9. Pronouns
9.1. • The semantics of deictic pronouns
9.2. • Anaphora
9.3. • Cataphora
9.4. • The semantics of pronominal gender features
10. Lexical Semantics
10.1. Sense and Relation
10.1.1. • What is an antonym?
10.1.2. • Kinds of antonymy
10.1.3. • Antonymous relations
10.1.3.1. Binary/non binary antonyms
10.1.4. • Symmetry and reciprocity