FREN 5125

This course situates contributions to semantics from French scholars during the past 100 years in the broader context of international scholarship on semantics - the study of meaning which is the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, psychology and anthropology. The course will focus on approaches to the study of meaning as they contrast with each other and as they evolve in the work of various scholars from Arsène Darmesteter (1846-1888) and Michel Bréal (1832-1915) to current practitioners of semantics.