Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 128)
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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Nick Evans.
Prerequisite: 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval.
Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
By the end of the subject, students should:
- develop an understanding of the main linguistic approaches to the study of meaning;
- develop skills in semantic analysis and argumentation;
- demonstrate a more detailed appreciation of the problems of accounting for some selected areas of linguistic meaning;
- be able to situate the study of linguistic meaning in context with respect to work on meaning in other disciplines (e. g. philosophy or semiotics).
Content:
An introduction to the study of meaning.
Assessment:
Two written assignments, a tutorial presentation and an essay. There will also be regular non-assessable problems, totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 128)
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