
Special areas of translation: Semantics
Lectures:30
Seminars:0
Tutorials:0
ECTS credit:3
Lecturer(s): izr. prof. dr. Jurko Primož
Content
- introduction and basic terminology
- meaning relations (paradigmatic)
- syntagmatic meaning relations
- componential analysis
- semantics of prototypes
- complexity of lexical meaning
- the role of context; ambiguity and disambiguation
- utterance, sentence, proposition
- participant roles
- interpersonal meaning; speech acts
- introduction to Meaning-Text Theory
- semantic universals.