OJ416 Semantics and semiotics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:35 C32
Prerequisites
Nothing but for the sake of contrast, it is good to have some experience with a functional-structural description of grammar (e.g. OJ202) and lexicon.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The objectives of the course are to introduce student to the functional-structuralist way from morphemes, minimal language signs, to a linguistic description of the content of a particular text.
Syllabus
  • 1) Semantics of natual language. 2) Three traditons of the sing. 3) Morpheme as a minimal sing. 4) Semata 5) Semata in morphems as a product of existence of other morphems in the same texts. 6) Isotopy and isosemy 7) Relation to hermeneutics and poetics.
Literature
  • GREIMAS, Algirdas Julien. Sémantique structurale : Recherche de méthode. Paris: PUF, 1986, 262 s. ISBN 2-13-039308-X. info
  • Applied semantics : International Summer School, APPSEM 2000 : Caminha, Portugal, September 9-15, 2000 : advanced lectures. Edited by Gilles Barthe. Berlin: Springer, 2002, vi, 536. ISBN 3540440445. info
  • FONT, Josep M. and Ramón JANSANA FERRER. A general algebraic semantics for sentential logics. Berlin: Springer, 1996, vi, 135. ISBN 3540616993. info
  • DOWTY, David R. Word meaning and montague grammar : the semantics of verbs and times in generative semantics and in montague´s PTQ. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, xxv, 415 s. ISBN 90-277-1008-2. info
  • KULAS, Jack and Jaakko HINTIKKA. Anaphora and definite descriptions : two applications of game-theoretical semantics. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985, xii, 250. ISBN 9027720568. info
  • KIEFER, Ferenc and Samuel ABRAHAM. A Theory of Structural Semantics. Paris: Mouton and Co., 1966, 98 s. info
  • Classics in semantics. New York: Philosophical Library, 1965. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written exam consisting in two parts: 1) notional apparatus, 2) analysis of a concrete text
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Autumn 2011, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2021.
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