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LING6032
Departmental Editor2021-07-27T15:15:37+08:00LING6032 Semantics Dr. Leo Hoye MA Elective course. Sem 2Monday, 9:30 am – 12:20 pm Venue: Online Course Description This course introduces students to the linguistic study of meaning. It focuses on the meaning of signs and the relation between signifiers and what they stand for. Topics to be examined include both traditional and current approaches to lexical and sentence meaning. The role of semantics in the language system will be addressed. Central problems and theoretical concepts of Semantics will be discussed, with illustration from a variety of languages. Course Details Assessment:100% coursework