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As a branch of English Linguistics, this course introduces basic notions of word meaning, sentence meaning and utterance meaning. Specifically, it aims to familiarize its participants with (1) semantic features; (2) sense relations of words: hyponymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, and homonymy; (3) sense properties of sentences: analyticity, syntheticity, contradiction, anomaly, ambiguity, paraphrase, entailment, and figures of speech; (4) the distinction between sense and reference, sentences and utterances, presuppositions and implicatures, performatives and constatives, and different types of speech acts.

As a branch of English Linguistics, this course introduces basic notions of word meaning, sentence meaning and utterance meaning. Specifically, it aims to familiarize its participants with (1) semantic features; (2) sense relations of words: hyponymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, and homonymy; (3) sense properties of sentences: analyticity, syntheticity, contradiction, anomaly, ambiguity, paraphrase, entailment, and figures of speech; (4) the distinction between sense and reference, sentences and utterances, presuppositions and implicatures, performatives and constatives, and different types of speech acts.