MEANING IN LANGUAGE: SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS, AND DISCOURSE

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Examines key topics in semantics, pragmatics, and discourse ranging from word, sentence, and utterance meaning, ambiguity, implication, indirect speech acts, composition, and modality. Explores and evaluates key theories in semantics and pragmatics, common methods of analyzing language meaning and use, and the logics and politics of utterances. Critically analyzes relationships between semantics/pragmatics and society, including informal environments, legal or political discourse, and literature and other media. Provides linguistic tools for examining semantics and pragmatics in everyday life.