Cilj je kolegija uvesti studente u složenosti značenjskih pojavnosti, te u različite kako tradicionalne tako i suvremene teorijske okvire pomoću kojih se te pojavnosti mogu objasniti.
Kolegij uvodi studente u složena pitanja značenja i to 1) na razini leksema odnosno riječi, 2) na paradigmatskoj razini, odnosno strukturi vokabulara i 3) u odnos semantike i sintakse, odnosno odnose sintagmatske razine. Obrađuju se temeljni tradicionalni semantički pojmovi kao što su homonimija, sinonimija, polisemija, antonimija, te tradicionalni teorijski pristupi poput komponencijalne analize i teorije polja. Posebna se pažnja posvećuje tradicionalnom pristupu metafori i metonimiji ali se i uvode nova gledanja na te jezične pojavnosti koja dolaze iz kognitivne semantike. Složenost odnosa semantike i sintakse ili značenjskih pojavnosti na sintagmatskoj razini analiziraju se od razine rečenice do manjih sintagmatskih jedinica poput kolokacija.
- Orientation, syllabus. What is semantics? Short historical overview. Semantics and other related disciplines.What is meaning? The nature of linguistic meaning. Types of meaning.
- Functions of language and their relation to meaning.Traditional terms in Semantics: Homonymy. Polysemy. Synonymy.
- Is Semantics a science?Contemporary approaches: the scientific approach to meaning. Methods and possible approaches.
- Methods of semantic analysis: Componential Analysis. Types of meaning relations.Triangles of meaning.Traditional and contemporary approaches to Componential Analysis.
- Semantically related lexemes: organization on the paradigmatic levelSemantic or lexical fieldsAntonymy
- REVISION. TEST 1.
- Hyperonyms and hyponymsTaxonomies
- Introduction to Cognitive SemanticsThe notion of prototype and its relevance for meaningCategorization
- Scenes and framesKnowledge of language and knowledge of the worldCategories: prototypes and schemas
- Traditional and contemporary approaches to metaphor and metonymy.
- Semantics and grammar.
- Semantics and pragmatics.Use of corpora in semantic research.
- Reserved for follow-up on any of the above topics.
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- Final revision. Test 2.