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CHNS6608A-L10

Chinese Semantics

The studies of semantics, grammar and phonetics are the three main branches of the study of modern linguistics. Semantics studies the meaning of language, encompassing and touching upon philosophy, logic, psychology, anthropology and semiology. This course focuses on the semantic subdivision of linguistics, with an emphasis on combining practical Chinese from the cognitional and functional aspects, explaining and discussing the various characteristics, types, structures and functions of semantics of words and expressions, as well as the formation, development and evolution of semantics. The course will also discuss the semantic structure of sentences, the aggregate relationship of semantics of words and expressions, the combined relationship in sentence semantics, the relationship in the meaning between sentences, and related issues.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60606
Subject Code:
CHNS
Course Number:
6608
Section Identifier:
A

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CHNS 6608

All Sections in Summer 2010, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2010, LS 6 Week Session

CHNS6608A-L10 Lecture (Shi)