Jordan University of Science and Technology
Faculty of Science and Arts
Department of English
First Semester 2008/2009
Course Outline
Course Information
Course Title
Semantics and Pragmatics
Course Code
817610
Prerequisites
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Course Website
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Instructor
Dr. Samer Jarbou
Office Location
D1 LEVEL 0
Office Phone #
23554
Office Hours
1:15-2:15
E-mail
SAMERJAR@JUST.EDU.JO
Teaching
Assistant(s)
-
Course Description
Textbooks
Title
1- Grundy, P. (2000). Doing pragmatics. New York:
Oxford University Press.
2- Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in interaction: An
introduction to pragmatics. London: Longman.
3- Huang, Y. (2007). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
4- Lyons, J. (1996). Linguistic semantics: An introduction.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Author(s)
See above.
Publisher
See above.
Year
See above.
Edition
See above
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Book Website
Other references
1- Levinson C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
2-Davis S. (Ed.) (1991). Pragmatics: A reader. New York:
Oxford University Press.
3-Leech, G. (1988). Principles of pragmatics. London:
Macmillan Press.
4-Austin, J. L. (1962) How to Do Things With Words,
New
York:
Oxford
University
Press
5-Blakemore, D. (1990) Understanding Utterances:
The Pragmatics of Natural Language, Oxford: Blackwell.
6-Blum-Kulka, S., Kasper, G. & House, J. (eds.)
(1989) Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologie.
Norwood,
NJ:
Ablex.
7-Brown, P. & Levinson, S. (1978) 'Universals in
language usage: Politeness phenomena', in Goody, E.
(ed.) Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social
Interaction, pp56~311, Cambridge, England: Cambridge
UniversityPress.
Assessment
Assessment
Expected Due Date
Percentage
Midterm Exam
16/11/2009
40 %
Final Exam
To be announced.
50 %
Assignments
.
Participation/
presentations
Two Presentations
Attendance
-
10%
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Course Objectives
Percentage
20 %
1.
To provide a detailed introduction to, and give a critical survey of,
a wide range of issues of contemporary relevance in the fields of
pragmatics and semantics
2. To give students adequate knowledge on how to start a research project in
semantics or pragmatics.
50 %
3. To ensure that students are aware of the place of semantics and pragmatics
within the larger field of Linguistics.
30 %
Teaching & Learning Methods
Teacher presents topics and discusses them with students. In this course there is emphasis on presenting
and analyzing real language examples. These could be from English or Arabic. Students are encouraged
to answer activities or exercises in the books or given by the teacher.
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course,
1- Students should have adequate knowledge about the terms and concepts in the
the fields of semantics and pragmatics.
2- Students should be able to analyze language in relation to semantics and
pragmatics.
Course Content
Week
1
2-3
Topics
(Grundy) Using and Understanding
Language.
(Grundy) Deixis
4
(Grundy) Speech Acts.
5-6
7
(Grundy) Implicit Meaning:
Conversational Implicature
(T Midterm Exam
Chapter in Textbook
(handouts)
1
2
3
4
8-9
(Thomas) Pragmatics and Indirectness +
The Construction of Meaning.
5&7
10
(Grundy) Theories of Politeness
7
11
12
13
14
15
(Huang) Pragmatics and semantics.
(Lyons) Chapter One
(Lyons) Chapter Two
(Lyons) Chapter Three
General Discussion
7
1
2
3
Handouts