School of English and American Studies

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= final examination topics: MA, English: Semantics, Vocabulary and Discourse in English

== topics

#    Semantic (lexical) relations among words
#    Semantic relations among sentences; their relationship to lexical relations
#    The place of words in language: mental lexicon, word stock; kinds of word
#    Words and larger units in dictionaries
#    Lexical decomposition and its limits
#    Types of meaning
#    Reference and deixis
#    The impact of syntactic structure on interpretation
#    Thematic/Semantic roles
#    Pragmatics: speech acts and conversational strategies
#    Problems of the relationship between language, meaning and thought
#    Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic acceptability

== suggested readings

*    Aitchison, J. Words in the mind. An introduction to the mental lexicon. 2nd ed. Blackwell, 1994
*    Brown, G. – Yule G. Discourse analysis, CUP, 1983
*    Cruse, D. A. Lexical semantics, CUP, 1991
*    Cruse, A. Meaning in language. An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. OUP, 2000
*    Fromkin, V. – Rodman R, An introduction to language, 5th ed. HBC, 1993
*    Fromkin, V ed., Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory, Blackwell, 2000
*    Hudson, R. Word meaning, Routledge, 1995
*    Hurford J, – Heasley B, Semantics: a coursebook, CUP, 1983
*    Jackson, H. Words and their meaning. Longman, 1996
*    Jackson, H. – Amvela E Z Words, meaning and vocabulary, Continuum, 2007
*    Jeffries, L. Meaning in English. An introduction to language study. Palgrave, 1998
*    Katamba, F. English words, Routledge 1997
*    Kempson, R.  M. Semantic theory, CUP, 1977
*    Leech, G. Principles of pragmatics, Longman, 1983
*    Leech, G. Semantics, Penguin, 1981
*    Levinson, S. Pragmatics, CUP, 1983
*    Lyons, J. Semantics, CUP, 1977
*    Napoli, D. J. Linguistics: An introduction, OUP, 1996
*    O'Grady – Dobrovolsky – Katamba Contemporary linguistics, Longman, 1997
*    O'Grady – Dobrovolsky – Aronoff Contemporary linguistics, SMP, 1993
*    Pinker, S. The language instinct, Penguin, 1994
*    Radford, A. et al. Linguistics. An introduction. CUP, 1st ed 1999, 2nd ed. 2009
*    Saeed, J. I. Semantics, Blackwell, 1997
*    Salkie, R. Text and discourse analysis, Routledge, 1995
*    Taylor, J. R. Linguistic categorization, OUP 1995