Course English Semantics and Pragmatics

Deskripsi Mata Kuliah

The lesson deals with linguistic meaning, kinds of basic elements to make reference in characterizing the meanings of words or other linguistic units,kinds of relevant data, and how to evaluate the various possible types of data and how word meanings change. Theoretical topics covered include categorization construal acquisition of concepts metaphor blending metonymy compositionality mental spaces lexical semantic change. Various semantic domains will be examined in connection with these topics, e.g. color terms, kinship, dimensional terms, verb meaning but two domains will be treated in depth from various perspectives: the semantics of everyday concepts, and the semantics of space and motion. For pragmatics theoritical frameworks are speech acts,implicature, presupposition, relevant theory, cooperative principles, politeness principles, references, deixies, contexts and co-texts. The final project is documenting the short functional teks are found in the public areas to interpret the communication functions.

CPMK

Being able to classify linguistic devices such as appropriate dictions and utterances both in spoken and written texts
Being able to illustrate the contextual sociocultural phenomena based the concepts and theories of word meaning and speaker’s meaning

Being able to examine the appropriate approaches in meaning to analyze spoken and written text
Being able to respond various kind problem solving of word meaning and speaker‘s meaning in spoken and written text

Aktifitas Pembelajaran

Pertemuan 1
By presenting Semantics definition, Meaning and the Dictionary
Date 4 Februari 2025
Pertemuan 2
By presenting Meaning and context External context: sense and reference
Date 11 Februari 2025
Pertemuan 3
By presenting Meaning and context External context: sense and reference
Date 18 Februari 2025
Pertemuan 4
To understand the scope of meaning II: interpersonal context
Date 25 Februari 2025
Pertemuan 5
To analyze and distinguish meanings To understand logic as representation of meaning
Date 4 Maret 2025
Pertemuan 6
By identifying the componential analysis, Polysemy and meaning divisions
Date 11 Maret 2025
Pertemuan 7
By identifying the componential analysis, Polysemy and meaning divisions
Date 18 Maret 2025
Pertemuan 8
Midtest Terms
Date 25 Maret 2025
Pertemuan 9
To apply Deixis and Distance in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 1 April 2025
Pertemuan 10
To apply Reference and Inference in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 8 April 2025
Pertemuan 11
To apply Presupposition and Entailment in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 15 April 2025
Pertemuan 12
To apply Cooperation and Implicature in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 22 April 2025
Pertemuan 13
To apply Speech Acts and Events in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 29 April 2025
Pertemuan 14
To apply Politeness and Interaction in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 6 Mei 2025
Pertemuan 15
To apply Conversation and Preference Structure in a language which the speaker uses to express their intended meanings
Date 13 Mei 2025
Pertemuan 16
Final Examination
Date 20 Mei 2025