Videos

The purpose of these videos

I love visualizing ideas. It helps me to understand. And I hope it helps others too. They are designed for particular courses I tought . Though I think they can be watched outside of this context. Feel free to use them and share them, if you like them.

Semantics and pragmatics

The following videos accompany my introduction to semantics and pragmatics at UPF.
Compositionality
Possible worlds
Deixis and reference
Common ground
Speech acts
The principle of cooperation
Language in interaction
Language and emotions
Thought and communication
What is meaning?
The meaning of life

Basic concepts of linguistics

I made the following videos quite some time ago to go with my Introduction to Linguistics classes at UBC.
Intro
Writing and language
identity through language
IPA
Phonemes
Making sounds
Making words
Syllables
morphemes
Syntax
semantics
pragmatics
gestures
language acquisition
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