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Semantics - OPBA4A043B

Title:	Sémantika
Guaranteed by:	Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2022
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Extent per academic year:	0 [hours]
Capacity:	unknown / 22 (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite :	OPBA4A011A, OPBA4A012A

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Annotation -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with various issues associated with meaning in language, including different types of meaning, approaches to the study of meaning, different ways meaning is coded,sense relations, and meaning changes and modifications. Focus is placed on lexical meaning, which is examined predominantly from the semantic perspective and illustrated on examples from everyday use. Topic 1: Types and modes of meaning; compositionality; lexical and grammatical meaning; theoretical approaches to the study of meaning Topic 2: Meaning and concept; mental representation of categories; prototype Topic 3: Paradigmatic relations; identity vs opposition Topic 4: Syntagmatic relations; co-occurrence restrictions; anomalies; grammar semantics Topic 5: Polysemy; meaning extension; metaphor and metonymy; changes and modifications of meaning; contextual modification and variation

Descriptors -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

Self-study of literature: 10 hours

Individual work with study materials: 15 hours

Fulfilling the individual course assignments: 25 hours

Test preparation: 20 hours

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (16.02.2023)

CRUSE, David. A. Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. 3rd edition. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

ČERMÁK, František. Lexikon a Sémantika. Praha: NLN, 2010. I

JACKSON, Howard. Words and their meaning. Harlow, Essex, London & New York: Longman, 1988.

KROEGER, Paul R. Analysing Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018.

LYONS, John. Linguistic Semantics. An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

MURPHY, Lynne. Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy, and Other Paradigms. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

MURPHY, Lynne. Lexical Meaning. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.

SAEED, John. I. Semantics. 4th edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (22.02.2023)

In order to pass and complete the course successfully, the students are required to fulfil the following:

1. home preparation, i.e. self-study of theory and completion of the assigned tasks

2. active participation in seminars

3. written test

- the test covers all the topics discussed in the seminars

- the minimal number of points achieved in the test is 70%

- students are allowed 1 re-sit

Syllabus -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

Topic 1: Types and modes of meaning; compositionality

Topic 2: Lexical and grammatical meaning

Topic 3: Theoretical approaches to the study of meaning (Componential analysis; holistic approaches)

Topic 4: Meaning and concept; mental representation of categories; prototype

Topic 5: Paradigmatic relations (generally)

Topic 6: The paradigmatic relation of identity

Topic 7: The paradigmatic relation of opposition

Topic 8: Syntagmatic relations; co-occurrence restrictions; anomalies; grammar semantics

Topic 9: Polysemy; meaning extension; metaphor and metonymy

Topic 10: Changes and modifications of meaning; contextual modification and variation

Topic 11: Summary and revision

Course completion requirements -

Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

In order to pass and complete the course successfully, the students are required to fulfil the following:

1. home preparation, i.e. self-study of theory and completion of the assigned tasks

2. active participation in seminars

3. written test

- the test covers all the topics discussed in the seminars

- the minimal number of points achieved in the test is 70%

- students are allowed 2 re-sits