Semantics Workshop
PROF. SAVINA RAYNAUD
[The second module of teaching syllabus borrowed from the Faculty of Arts, including the
course name “Philosophy of language”]
COURSE AIMS
The aim of the course is to test out the effectiveness and adequacy of the
theoretical skills learned during the Semantics course and further students’
understanding of the texts.
COURSE CONTENT
Semantic studies of texts handed out at lectures/composed at lectures based around
specific topics: recognition/creation of predicative-argumentative relations,
referential expressions and inferential operations, also studied along
contrastive/translational lines (studies of the semantics of lexical entries and
morpho-syntactic structures) within individual statements and complete texts.
READING LIST
Study grid (worked out on the basis of the reading list for the Semantics course) and
supplementary documents handed out at the beginning of the workshop and uploaded to
the Blackboard website.
TEACHING METHOD
The workshop is based along the lines of supervised practical work (SPW) aimed at
reinforcing skills - critical and practical – connected with the relationship between data and
theories.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
The skills learned during practical laboratory work will be assessed based on the reading
and correcting of individual papers handed in at the end of the workshop. The results will be
given and discussed during the examination.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG or on the Faculty notice
board.