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UNIT I
A. Semantics and its Scope.
B. Approaches to the Study of Meaning.
C. Denotation and Connotation; References and Sense.
D. Sense Relations- Synonymy, Antonymy, Polysemy, Hyponymy, Part-Whole Relations,
Homonymy.
UNIT II
A. Meaning Types: Descriptive, Emotive, Phatic.
B. Lexical and Grammatical Meaning.
C. Lexical Semantics: Componential Analysis, Lexical field, Marked-Unmarked.
D. Ambiguity and its Types.
UNIT III
A. Semantic Structure of Sentences; Arguments and Predicates.
B. Entailment, Presupposition, Implication.
C. Tautology and Contradiction.
D. Utterance meaning: Speech Acts.
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