You are on page 1of 2

Semantics and pragmatics EXAM

1. Agent vs. goal. 2. Causatives. 3. Conceptual metaphor (structural, ontological, orientational). 4. Conversational implicatures. 5. Conversational maxims (quantity, quality, relation, manner). 6. Denotation vs. connotation. 7. Durativity vs. punctuality. 8. Entailment. 9. Unaccusative vs. unergative transitive clauses. 10. Explicature vs. implicature. 11. Expression/utterance/sentencje. 12. Irony. 13. Linguistic vs. situational context. 14. Metonymy. 15. Modality (deontic vs. epistemic). 16. Presupposition. 17. Proposition. 18. Prototype theory. 19. Semantics vs. pragmatics. 20. Senders/utterance/sentencje meaning.

21. Sense realtions (synonymy, antonymy, complementarity, conversness, the has-

relation, hyponymy, incompatibility) 22. Situation types (achievement, accomplishment, state, activity). 23. Speech acts (locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary; assertive, commissives, expressive, declaratives; informative, obligative, constitutive). 24. Telicty vs. atelicity.

You might also like