DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
Rancangan Pengajaran Mingguan
SEMESTER 2 2013/2014
Nama dan Kod Kursus
: BBI 3219 Semantics and Pragmatics
(Semantik dan Pragmatik)
Jam Kredit
: 3 (3+0)
Penyelaras/Pensyarah
: Dr. Zalina bt. Mohd. Kasim
E-mail: zalina_mk@upm.edu.my
Office: 1st Floor, A153
Tel: 03-8946 8733
Semester
: Kedua 2013/2014
Tempat dan Masa
Kuliah
: Dewan Za’aba
Wednesday 3-4pm, Friday 10am-12pm
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. describe how meaning is structured through language and language used in context (C2),
2. explain various types and dimensions of meaning, and principles that underlie meaning in
language and language use (P2),
3. use different approaches to analyse meaning at lexical, structural and discoursal levels (A5), and
4. develop an inquiring mind to seek knowledge (CTPS, EM)
COURSE SYNOPSIS
This course covers how meaning is structured through language use in context, different types and
dimensions of meaning in language and language use, and various approaches to the analysis of
meaning of linguistic units at various levels, and language use. It provides practice in the application
of semantic and pragmatic principles to an understanding of a variety of texts.
(Kursus ini merangkumi bagaimana makna dibentuk melalui bahasa, pelbagai jenis dan dimensi
makna dalam bahasa dan penggunaan bahasa, dan pelbagai pendekatan terhadap analisis makna di
pelbagai tahap unit linguistik serta penggunaan bahasa dalam konteks. Kursus ini melatih pelajar
mengaplikasi prinsip semantik dan pragmatik dalam pemahaman pelbagai teks).
KANDUNGAN / CONTENT
Week
1
Topic
Semantics and Pragmatics: an overview
- Defining semantics : what is meaning
- Defining pragmatics
- Semantics distinguished from pragmatics
Readings
Cruse – Chapter 1
Creidler – Chap 1 & Chap 2
Griffiths – Chap 1: 1 – 23
Hurford – Chap 1
2
Types and Dimensions of meaning
- Sentence, utterance and propositions
- Denotation, reference and inference, connotation
Creidler – p. 42-49, 131-136
Hurford – p. 16-25
Cruse – p. 21-22
Palmer – Chap 3
3
Meaning, thought and reality
- Categories and concepts
- Prototype theory
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Saeed – Chap 2: 23-49
Cruse – Chap 7: 127-141
Lobner – Chap 9: 171-199
4
Meaning and the Lexicon
- Analysing word meaning
- Sense relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy
- Componential Analysis – lexical decomposition
Palmer – p. 56-8
Creidler – p. 51-56, 87-110
Saeed – p. 53-85, Chap 3, Chap 9:
247-250
Hurford – Chap 3: 93-140
Lobner – p 42-44
5
Historical Semantics
To be announced
6
Figurative Language
- Compositional meaning
- The Principle of Compositionality
- Metaphor, Metonymy, Idioms
- Synecdoche
Griffiths – Chap 5: p. 78-92
Cruse – Chap 4: 67-79
Saeed – Chap 11: 342-362
7
Structure and meaning I
- Words in combination
- Locating meaning in sentences
- Paraphrase, entailment
Palmer – Chap 6
Creidler – Chap 155: 157-174
8
Structure and meaning II
- Type, tense, aspect
- Modality, quantification
9
Contextual meaning / context and inference
- Utterance meaning
- Style and manner in interaction
- Problems with interpretation – dictionary/
encyclopedia distinction
- Deixis, reference
Saeed – Chap 5: 116-147
Cruse – Chap 14: 267-291
Creidler – Chap 10: 199-222, 239246
Saeed – Chap 7: 181-201
Cruse – Chap 15: 305-326
Creidler – Chap 7: 129-151, 239246
10
Cooperation and Implicature
- The cooperative principle, Grice’s maxim
- Conversational implicature, Relevance Theory
- Conventional implicature
Hurford – Chap 6
Saeed – Chap 7: 202-210
Cruse – Chap 17: 349-368
11
Speech Acts and Events
- The speech act theory
- Felicity conditions
- Speech act classification
Creidler – Chap 9: 176-194
Hurford – Chap 6
Cruse – Chap 16: 331-345
12
Politeness and Interaction
- Politeness theory
- Positive and negative face
- Positive and negative politeness
Hurford – Chap 6
Yule – Chap 7
13
14
Presentation
Presentation
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There may be some changes in the topics throughout the semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Cruse, A. (2000) Meaning in Language. Oxford: OUP. (P325 C957 2011)
Creidler, C. W. (1998) Introducing English Semantics. London: Routledge (PE1585 K92)
Griffiths, P. (2006) An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.( PE1585 G855)
Hurford, J. R., Heasley, B. & Smith M. B. (2007) Semantics: A Coursebook (2nd ed.). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (P325 H963)
Palmer, F. R. (1981) Semantics (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (P325 P3 1981)
Saieed. J. I. (2003) Semantics (2nd ed.). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Yule, G. (1996) Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (P99.4 P72Y95)
PENILAIAN/EVALUATION
Mid Semester Test (20%)
Assignment 1 (30%)
Assignment 2(20%)
Final Exam (30%)
NOTE: No replacement assignments or exams will be given without a valid reason such as MC,
illness or death in a family or other reason deemed valid by the lecturer.
Important Notes/Reminders
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Please ensure that you are not late for lectures- so be punctual!
Attendance is compulsory (Please provide letters or MC for absenteeism)
If you have less than 80% attendance you can be barred from taking the final examination.
Plagiarised or copied work will be given a grade of “F”.
All assignments must be handed in on time.
Late assignments will be downgraded by 10%.
Due dates for assignments are as noted in the content schedule.
If you need to contact me please do so via email or on my office extension.