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By focusing of semantics, this course will investigate the realm of meaning in language, and will explore the different accounts for how we understand words and are able to use them to create more complex meanings. Part of the course will consider meaning at the word level: how can we define their meanings and what are the relationships between different sets of words. Another section will examine meaning at a sentential level: sentential ambiguity, the relations between sentences, and how the whole meaning of a sentence can be understood. Lastly, we will focus on language at the discourse level, and will look at the ways in which language can be used directly or indirectly to accomplish speech acts.
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