E] listado de contenidos es el siguiente: Unit I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF MEANING Lesson 1. Basic concepts Lesson 2. Semantics and related disciplines 1.1. Communication and Language 1.1.1, A model of communication 1.1.2. Problems in the study of meaning 1.2. Different units of analysis: words, utterances, sentences, and propositions 1.2.1. Words 1.2.2. Utterances, sentences, and propositions 1.2.3. Texts 1.3. Meaning and the word. Different dimensions of meaning 1.3.1. Reference 1.3.2. Denotation and sense 1.4, ‘Types of meaning 1.4.1. Functional meaning and content meaning. Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning 1.4.2. Literal and non literal meaning 1.4.3. Contextual meaning 1.4.4. Extensions of meaning: metaphor and metonymy 1.5. Methodological issues: an introduction i An introduction to conceptual categorization Linguistic codification: lexicalization and grammaticalization 1.5.3. Componential analysis 2.1. Introduction 2.1.1. Linguistic models and different semantic approaches 2.1.2. Representational and denotational approaches in semantics 2.2, Semantics and logic 2.2.1. Logic in semantic analysis 2.2.2. Introduction to predicate logic 2.2.2.1. Arguments and predicates 2.2.2.2. States of affairs 2.2.2.3. Participant roles 2.2.3. Propositional content14 | SEMANTICA Y LEXICOGRAFIA INGLESA 2.2.4. Analytic and synthetic sentences: truth value 2.2.4.1. Logical properties of sentences 2.2.4.2. Logical relations between sentences: entailment, equivalence, contrariety, contradiction, indepen- dence, presupposition 2.2.4.3. Analytical, paradoxical, and synthetic sentences 2.2.4.4. Logical classes 2.2.4.5. Class relations (identity, inclusion, disjunction, intersection, union) 2.2.5. Logical relations (transitivity, symmetry, reflexivity, converseness) 2.2.6. Quantification 2.3, Semantics and Artificial Intelligence 2.3.1, Frames 2.3.2. Scripts 2.4. Semantics and Pragmatics 2.4.1, Meaning and text 2.4.1.1, Deixis 2.4.1.2. Information structure 2.4.2, Meaning and context 2.4.2, 2.4.2. . Speech acts . Context and Inference Il. PARADIGMATIC RELATIONS Lesson 3. Paradigmatic relations. A word view 3.1. Lexical meaning 3.1.1, Word forms and lexemes 3.1.2. Closed-set items and open-set items 3.1.3. Lexical relations 3.1.4. Word meaning and meaning components 3.1.5. Approaches to lexical analysis 3.2.2. Entities and state of affai 3.3. Grammatical meaning 3.3.1. The meaning of major grammatical categories. Grammatical meanings associated with the noun 3.3.2. Grammatical meanings associated with the verb 3.3.3. Adjectives and properties in word meaningCONTENIDOS | 15 Lesson 4. Paradigmatic relations. A text view 4.1. Sense relations 4. General overview. Homonymy and polysemy 4 Paradigmatic relations 4.1.2.1. Paradigmatic relations of identity and inclusion 4.1.2.2. Paradigmatic relations of exclusion and opposition 4.2. Semantic fields, word fields, semantic nets, and lexical domains The concept of semantic field Hierarchies, taxonomic hierarchies, meronymy Linear structures, grids and clusters Ill. SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONS Lesson 5. Syntagmatic relations. A word view 5.1. Lexical decomposition Introduction Some approaches to lexical decomposition Definitional analysis Correlations, discontinuities, and complex parallels 5.2. Argument structure and semantic functions 5.2.1. Different states of affairs and verb types 5.2.2, Semantic functions . Argument structure and selection restrictions Lesson 6. Syntagmatic relations. A sentence view 6.1, Layers of meaning in a sentence 6.1.1, Utterance meaning. The subjectivity of utterance 6.1.2. Meaning at the predication level: logical matters, participant roles, or semantic functions. A hierarchy of them .. Meaning at the proposition level: modality and evidentiality |. Meaning at the clause level a 61 6.2. Sentence meaning and situations 6.2.1, Meaning at the clause level. Speech acts and functions of language IV. THE COGNITIVE DIMENSION OF MEANING: Lesson 7. An introduction to Cognitive Semantics 7.1. The relationship between linguistic knowledge and cognition 7.1.1, Formal approaches to language 7.1.2. Functional approaches to language