Textbook 1: Semantics – A coursebook (Hurford et al.

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Textbook 2: English semantics (Tô Minh Thanh)
I. WORD MEANING, SENTENCCE MEANING AND UTTERANCE MEANING
1. Word meaning (Textbook 2 – chương 2)
1.1. Semantic features and Semantic fields
1.2. Denotative meaning and Connotative meaning
1.3. Literal meaning and Figurative meaning
2. Sentence meaning and utterance meaning (Textbook 1 – Unit 1+2)
2.1. Sentence and utterance
2.2. Proposition
2. 3. Sentence meaning and utterance meaning
II. REFERENCE AND SENSE
1. Reference (Textbook 1 – Unit 3)
2. Sense (Textbook 1 – Unit 3)
3. Referring expressions (Textbook 1 – Unit 4)
4. Definite and indefinite noun phrases as referring expressions (Textbook 1 – Unit 4)
5. Deixis (Textbook 1 – Unit 7)
III. SENSE RELATIONS BETWEEN WORDS
1. Synonymy (Textbook 1 – Unit 10)
2. Hyponymy (Textbook 1 – Unit 10)
3. Antonymy (Textbook 1 – Unit 11)
4. Homonymy and Polysemy (Textbook 1 – Unit 11)
IV. SENSE PROPERTIES AND SENSE RELATIONS BETWEEN SENTENCES
1. Equative sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 4)
2. Generic sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 6)
3. Analytic sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 9)
4. Synthetic sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 9)
5. Contradictory sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 9)
6. Entailment (Textbook 1 – Unit 10)
7. Paraphrase (Textbook 1 – Unit 10)
8. Ambiguous sentences (Textbook 1 – Unit 11)