The studies of semantics, grammar and phonetics are the three main branches of the study of modern linguistics. Semantics studies the meaning of language, encompassing and touching upon philosophy, logic, psychology, anthropology and semiology. This course focuses on the semantic subdivision of linguistics, with an emphasis on combining practical Chinese from the cognitional and functional aspects, explaining and discussing the various characteristics, types, structures and functions of semantics of words and expressions, as well as the formation, development and evolution of semantics. The course will also discuss the semantic structure of sentences, the aggregate relationship of semantics of words and expressions, the combined relationship in sentence semantics, the relationship in the meaning between sentences, and related issues.



Required Text:

Semantics

Howard Gregory

Routledge(2000)

ISBN-13: 9780415216104



Semantics (Language Workbooks)

ISBN-13:9780415216104

ISBN-10:0415216109

Author: Howard Gregory

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Published: January 2000



Introduction to Semantics (revised edition) (Paperback)

ISBN-13:9787301093801

ISBN-10:7301093802

Author: LI FU YIN

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Unknown

Published: December 1991