Philosophy (PHIL)
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
PHIL 3506 [0.5 credit]
Semantics
Study of language meaning. Lexical meaning and meanings of larger linguistic expressions, including nominal units, verbal units, and sentences. Meaning relationships between utterances. Relationship between linguistic meaning (semantics) and contextual meaning (pragmatics). Basic formal treatments of semantics. (Also listed as
LALS 3505.)
Prerequisites: third-year standing, and one of
FYSM 1206,
LALS 1000,
LALS 1001,
PHIL 2001, PHIL/LALS/COMM 2504 or PHIL/LALS 3504; or permission of the Department of Philosophy or School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.
Lectures three hours a week.