1. HXE 302
Semantics & Pragmatics
Revision

2. Topic 1
• What is semantics?
• What is meaning?
• The meaning of words
• Sense and reference

3. Topic 2
• Naming
• Referential approach
• Representational approach

4. Topic 3
• Word meaning – lexical relations
• Synonymy
• Antonymy
• Hyponymy
• Homonymy
• Polysemy

5. Topic 4
• Sentence meaning
• Ambiguity
• Lexical ambiguity – homonymy & polysemy
• Structural ambiguity
• Anomaly

6. Topic 5
• Speech acts – language as action
• Speech act theory (Austin)
• Locutionary act
• Illocutionary act
• Perlocutionary act
• Performatives verbs
• Speech act categories (Searle)

7. Topic 6
• Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature
• Direct and Indirect act
• Presupposition
• Entailment
• Cooperative principle & maxims
• Implicature – standard & flouting the maxims