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SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
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PART 1
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Sense Unicorn Reference Cat
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Night/knightphonologically (/n/) Lift/liftedmorphologically (roots) Write/paintsyntactically (transitive) Pot/pansemantically (sister terms) WORD RELATIONSHIPS
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Dog & Poodle All poodles are dogs = X is always included as a part of Y Dog and poodle are hyponyms Sister Term Two or more terms that are on the same level within a hyponymous hierarchy HYPONYMY & SISTER TERMS
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BUILD YOUR OWN HYPONYM
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SYNONYMS Two words that share the exact same reference.
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What is the antonym to emasculate?emasculat : to make (a man) feel less masculine : to deprive (a man) of his male strength, role, etc. : to make (something) weaker or less effective What’s the difference between a complementary pair and gradable pair? Discuss with your neighbor- How _____ is he/it? ANTONYMS
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Semantics at the sentence level Entailment All dogs bark Sally’s dog barks Mutual Entailment Ian has a female sibling Ian has a sister PROPOSITIONS
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“The meaning of a sentence (or any other multi-word expression) is a function of the meanings of the words it contains, and how these words are syntactically combined. Sally loves Polly. Polly loves Sally. PRINCIPLE OF COMPOSITIONALITY
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Shramped flonked flo britter. Shramped flonked the britter. Shramped kicked the britter. Roberto kicked the britter. Roberto kicked the ball. Roberto kicked the bucket. SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX
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Think of 3 idiomatic expressions in English. Invent 1 new idiomatic expression in English. Idioms in Spanish/other languages? Pan comido (piece of cake) Llevar leña al monte (to carry coals to Newcastle) IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
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PART 2
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Sentence: There is a platypus in the bathtub. Utterance: The event that occurs when a sentence is spoken. The same sentence could have an infinite number of utterances. Properties of utterances include: time, place, volume, the speaker SENTENCE VS. UTTERANCE
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Deictic words Those things that hold the place of other things in a thing when someone says it. What does (can) this sentence mean? Can you take the trash out? CONTEXT AND MEANING
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Linguistic What precedes a particular utterance in a discourse. Do you like green beans? Yes. Yes, I do. Situational Nonlinguistic information that allows for an utterance to be understood. It smells. Social Relationships between interlocutors KINDS OF CONTEXT
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The difference is intuitive. Judgments of felicity may differ from one speaker to another. What do you do for a living? I’m a linguistic professor at Ohio State. What do you do for a living? I have a job. FELICITOUS & INFELICITOUS
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Steven Pinker (The cooperative principle) Steven Pinker THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE
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1.Maxim of Quality 2.Maxim of Relevance 3.Maxim of Quantity 4.Maxim of Manner 5.ViolationsViolations GRICE’S MAXIMS
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