Introduction to Linguistics 2 (CL1.102)

Summer 2021, IIIT Hyderabad

A collection of notes and resources for the Introduction to Linguistics 2 (ITL2) course at IIIT Hyderabad.

Course Topics

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Discourse

Lecture Contents

• Week 1
  • Lecture 1 (24 May, Monday)
    • Introduction
    • Motivation
    • History
  • Lecture 2 (26 May, Wednesday)
    • Meaning
    • The Modern Approach
  • Lecture 3 (28 May, Friday)
    • Types of Meaning (Conceptual, Connotative...
• Week 2
  • Lecture 4 (31 May, Monday)
    • ...Social, Affective, Collocative)
  • Lecture 5 (02 June, Wednesday)
    • Language as a Conceptual System
  • Lecture 6 (04 June, Friday)
    • Relativism
      • Arguments against the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
    • The Innateness Theory
• Week 3
  • Lecture 7 (07 June, Monday)
    • Relations
      • Sense Relations – Words (Homonymy...
  • (09 June, Wednesday)
    • PNCP – Semantics and Society
  • (11 June, Friday)
    • LG – Through the Language Glass: Language, Culture, Thought
• Week 4
  • (14 June, Monday)
    • WL – Linguistic Relativity
    • WaG – Is Semantics Scientific?
  • (16 June, Wednesday)
    • WaG – Is Semantics Scientific? (contd.)
    • P(P)L – Denotation, Sense and Reference
  • Lecture 8 (18 June, Friday)
    • Relations (contd.)
      • ...Polysemy, Meaning Inclusion, Near Synonymy...
• Week 5
  • Lecture 9 (21 June, Monday)
    • Relations (contd.)
      • ...Near Synonymy (contd.), Hyponymy, Meronymy, Antonymy, Reverses, Converses)
  • Lecture 10 (23 June, Wednesday)
    • Relations (contd.)
      • Sense Relations – Sentences (Synonymy, Entailment, Contradiction, Presupposition...
  • Lecture 11 (25 June, Friday)
    • Relations (contd.)
      • ...Tautology, Anomaly)
    • Sentence Structure
• Week 6
  • Lecture 12 (28 June, Monday)
    • Pragmatics
    • Deixis
  • Lecture 13 (30 June, Wednesday)
    • Deixis (contd.)
  • Lecture 14 (02 July, Friday)
    • Deixis (contd.)
• Week 7
  • Lecture 15 (05 July, Monday)
    • Discourse as Context
      • Discourse Topic
      • Reference and Context
    • Speech Acts
      • Communicative Competence and Speech Acts
  • Lecture 16 (07 July, Wednesday)
    • Speech Acts (contd.)
      • Performatives and Constantives (contd.)
      • Features and Types of Performatives
      • Force
      • Sentence Types
  • (09 July, Friday)
    • IS – How to be Polite with Emojis: A Pragmatic Analysis of Face Work Strategies in an Online Learning Environment
    • M – Pragmatic Functions of Code-Switching among Basque-Spanish Bilinguals
• Week 8
  • (12 July, Monday)
    • Cb – Topographical Deixis and Tani Languages
  • (14 July, Wednesday)
    • CFM – Colour and Kinship
  • (16 July, Friday)
    • SS – Cooking with Semantics
• Week 9
  • Lecture 17 (19 July, Monday)
    • Speech Acts (contd.)
      • Sentence Types (contd.)
      • Categorising Speech Acts
    • Conversational Implicature
      • Literal Meaning vs Conveyed Meaning
      • Advantages of Implicature
  • Lecture 18 (23 July, Friday)
    • Conversational Implicature (contd.)
      • Inference
        • Co-reference
        • Bridging Inference
      • Grice's Maxims
• Week 10
  • Lecture 19 (26 July, Monday)
    • Entailment Problems
  • Lecture 20 (28 July, Wednesday)
    • Entailment and Presupposition
    • Conversational Implicature (contd.)
      • Grice's Maxims (contd.)
  • Lecture 21 (30 July, Friday)
    • Discourse Semantics
      • Cohesive Relations
      • Coreference
      • Conjunctive Participle

Lecture recordings

The lectures can be found here.