YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
COURSE OUTLINE
SUBJECT: SEMANTICS
FRM/FBS/19-00
REVISION: 00 13 FEB. 2012
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Fakulty
Study Programme
Subject & code
Total Credits
Semester
Mata Kuliah Prasyarat & Kode
Dosen
: Languages and Arts
: English Education
: Semantics
Code : ING218
: Theory 1 credit
Practicum : 1 credit
: IV
:: Siti Mahripah, M.App.Ling.
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
Semantics is a course subject worth 2 semester credit units and compulsory for
the English Language Education Department students. It provides an
introductory study on meaning in language, covering such topics as proposition,
reference, universe of discourse, definiteness, ambiguity, sameness and
oppositeness in meaning, hyponymy, entailment, homonymy, polysemy,
derivation, participant role, and speech act. During the course, students are
presented with cases pertinent to the topics and analyze them in prescribed
ways. Most cases are taken from English. Their achievement in the course is
assessed by means of a mid-semester test and a final examination.
II. STANDART OF COMPETENCE OF THE COURSE
Upon the completion of the course, students are expected to have a good understanding of some
basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics. They are expected to be able to observe
the relation between linguistics expressions and objects in the world and to describe sense
properties and sense relations.
III. TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
Minggu
Topics
Details of the topic coverage
Time
General introduction and orientation to the
course: Course syllabus, course description,
standard of competence, topics coverage,
assessment criteria, references/sources
1. The systematic study of meaning
2. The nature of language
3. Language and the individual
4. Demonstrating semantic knowledge
1. Pragmatics
2. Natural and conventional signs
3. Linguistics signs
4. Utterance and sentence
100 minutes
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Introduction
2
The study of meaning
3
Language in use
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100 minutes
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The dimensions of meaning
5
Semantic roles
6
Lexical relations (1)
7
Lexical relations (2)
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MID-TERM TEST
Transition
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transfer
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predicates and reference (1)
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Reference (2)
11
Sentences as arguments
12
Speech acts
13
aspect
14
Factivity, implication and
modality
15
The
semantics
morphological relations
Review
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Prosody
Non-verbal communication
Reference and denotation
Connotation
Sense relations
Lexical and grammatical meanings
Morphemes
Homonymy and polysemy
Lexical ambiguity
Sentence meaning
Sentence and proposition
Semantic roles
Some changes in valency
Lexical fields
Kinship
Hyponymy
Synonymy
Antonymy
Binary and non-binary antonyms
A comparison of four relations
Converse antonyms
Symmetry and reciprocity
Expressions of quantity
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Transition and transfer
Referents and referring expressions
Extension and intention
Some different kinds of referents
Different ways of referring
Deixis
Anaphora
Shifts in ways of referring
Referential ambiguity
Comparing types of clauses
Syntactic ambiguity
The forms of sentences and the purpose of
utterances
Analysis of speech acts
Seven kinds of speech acts
Generic and specific predications
Stative and dynamic predicates
Ingressive, continuative, egressive aspect
Perspective and retrospective
Some grammatical expressions of aspect
Factivity, implicative predicates, and
modality
A variety of predicates
Formal processes of derivation
Semantic processes in derivation
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IV. REFERENCES
A. Main : Kreidler, C.W. 1998. Introducing English semantics. London: Routledge.
B. Optional
Palmer, F.R. 1976. Semantics: An new outline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hurford,J.R.,Heasley, B., Smith, M.B. 2007. Semantics: A coursebook. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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Blakemore, D. 2002. Relevance and linguistic meaning: The semantics and pragmatics of
discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
V. ASSESSMENT
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Assessment criteria
Class participation and assignments
Attendance
Mid-term test
Final test
Jumlah
Procentage (%)
20%
10%
30%
40%
100%
4D
20%
10%
35%
35%
100%
4B
30%
10%
30%
30%
100%
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