Semantica-I.pdf

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Semantica-I.pdf Enriqueestilos Semántica de la lengua inglesa I 2º Grado en Estudios Ingleses Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Cádiz Reservados todos los derechos. No se permite la explotación económica ni la transformación de esta obra. Queda permitida la impresión en su totalidad. 1 UNIT 1: INTRODUCING LEXICAL SEMANTICS 1. INTRODUCTION • Semantics: Discipline responsible for studying the literal meaning of expressions in a language (words, syntagms, sentences). • Lexicon: Totality of words that conform the vocabulary of a language. • Lexical semantics: Discipline responsible for studying the literal meaning of the words in a language. 1. CORE TASKS OF SEMANTICS One of the major problems of lexical semantics is that linguists with different theoretical commitments give different accounts of what the core tasks of semantics are; the following ones are an attempt at a relatively theoretically neutral summary: 1. DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT: It consists of saying what a word means (semantic meaning), but scholars have different opinions about the way of doing it. There are scholars who maintain that the notion ‘the meaning of a word’ is not a coherent one, wh...