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Meaning in Interaction An Introduction to Pragmatics

Author: Jenny Thomas

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Utterance meaning, meaning, speech acts, Conversational implicature, indirectness, approaches to pragmatics, construction of meaning

Thinking Arabic Translation

Author: James Dickins, Sandor Hervey, Ian Higgins

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ARA284

Topics: Arabic Translation, Arabic inter-semiotic translation, Arabic intralingual translation, interlinear translation, Arabic literal translation, Arabic free translation, communicative translation, equivalence translation loss, controlling translation loss, cultural transposition, exoticism, calque, cultural transplantation, cultural borrowing, transliterating names, compensation, denotative meaning, synonym, Hyperonymy-hyponymy, Partially overlapping translation, Connotative meaning, Attitudinal meaning, Associative meaning, Affective meaning, Allusive, reflected meaning, Alliteration, assonance, rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Translating Arabic verse, grammatical level, Grammatical arrangement, Morphological repetition, Pattern repetition, Lexical repetition, Sentence splitting, Textual restructuring, Paragraphing, Metaphor, Dead metaphors, Metaphor downtoning, tonal register, Diglossia, Translating technical texts

Expression and Meaning

Author: John Searle

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: illocutionary acts, Indirect speech acts, fictional discourse, metaphor, literal meaning, Referential, attributive, Speech acts, recent linguistics

Understanding Semantics, 2nd edition

Author: Sebastian Löbner

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: Semantics, ambiguity, predication, verbs, logic, language comparison, cognition, formal semantics, sentence meaning, compositionality, descriptive meaning, connotations, lexemes, lexical ambiguity, compositional ambiguity, contextual ambiguity, deixis, determination, presuppositions, predication, verbs, nouns, adjectives, predicate logic notation, thematic roles, verbs, argument structure diatheses, aspect tense, logical basis, logical relations, sentential logic, meaning relations, synonymy, hyponymy, oppositions, lexical fields, meaning components, semantic features, semantic formulae, semantic primes, Barsalou frames, Japanese numerals

Language, meaning and functions

Author: Idemudia Henry

School: University of Benin

Department: General studies

Course Code: GST111

Topics: Language

Chemical pathology meaning and purpose

Author: Nzegwu

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health science

Course Code: PAT301

Topics: laboratory test, biochemical profile, dynamic function test, urgent test, routine test, specimen collection, chemica pathology investigation cycle, case history, gaussian distribution

Language and Linguistics

Author: John Lyons

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Language, Linguistics, Language-behaviour, Language-systems, speech, branches of linguistics, sounds of language, phonic medium, phonetic representation, orthographic representation, articulatory phonetics, phonemes, allophones, suprasegmental phonology, phonological structure, grammar, syntax, inflection, morphology, grammaticality, productivity, parts of speech, form-classes, grammatical categories, generative grammar, sematics, lexical meaning, denotation, grammar, sentence-meaning, utterance-meaning, language-change, historical linguistics, language-families, historicism, structuralism, functionalism, generativism, universal grammar, mentalism, rationalism, innateness, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, psycholinguistics, accent, dialect, idiolect, vernaculars, bilingualism, code-switching, diglossia, stylistic variation, stylistics, culture, cultural overlap, cultural diffusion, translatability

Semantics ,4th edition

Author: John Saeed

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN101

Topics: Semantics, Meaning, Thought, Reality, Semantic Description, word meaning, sentence relations, sentence semantics, context, inference, formal semantics, cognitive semantics

Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

Author: John Lyons

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN121

Topics: linguistics, traditional grammar, comparative grammar, modern linguistics, structure of language, paradigmatic relations, syntagmatic relations, statistical structure, phonetics, phonology, grammar, formal grammar, lexicon, grammatical units, sentence, morpheme, word, grammatical structutre, trasformational grammar, grammatical categories, number, gender, case, tense, mood, aspect, parts of speech, grammatical functions, semantics, lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, semantic structure, synonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, universal semantics

An Introduction to Language ,11th edition

Author: Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG409

Topics: Language, linguistic knowledge, grammar, human language, thought, morphology, bound morphemes, free morphemes, word formation, morphological analysis, syntax, sentence structure, grammatical dependencies, pragmatics, meaning, compositional semantics, lexical semantics, word meaning, phonetics, sound segments, phonetic alphabet, articulatory phonetics, vowels, phonetic classes, phonology, phonemes, dialect, social dialects, regional dialects, prosodic phonology, language chane, phonological change, great vowel shift, syntatic change, langugage acquisition, language processing, huma brain, brain development

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