Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: LING 121
Description: Introduces the study of meaning and its metalinguistic preliminaries. Explores lexical, sentence, and utterance meaning (including speech acts, text, and discourse). Provides a survey of theories of meaning, such as structural semantics and language as a semiotic system.