Description
Module Content
This course is an introduction to the study of meaning in natural language (semantics and pragmatics) and to some basic logical concepts and their application therein.
Teaching Delivery
The module is taught by 1 x 2 hr lecture and 1 x 1 hr tutorial per week.
Indicative Topics
Indicative lecture topics are based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes.
Indicative topics: (based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes)
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1. Meaning in natural language
2. Entailment and presupposition
3. Sense and reference
4. Nouns and verbs
5. Adjectives and vagueness
6. Mass and count nouns
7. Classifier languages and linguistic relativism 8. Propositional logic 9. Conjunction and disjunction 10. Conditionals and material implication
Module Aims and/or Objectives
You will learn how the basics of the formal approaches to meaning. You will be introduced to Set Theory and Propositional Logic and consider natural language sematnics and pragmatics in their light.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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