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Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering &

Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan


16 weeks plan of BS English 5thSemester
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS ENGL-3115
Time Course Content
period
Week 1 Early theories of meaning (Ogden and Richards; Ferdinand de Saussure)
Week 2 Types of meaning
Week 3 Semantic field
Week 4 Componential analysis
Week 5 Sense Relations/ Lexical Relations: Hyponymy, Synonymy,Antonym
Week 6 Sense Relations/ Lexical Relations: Homonymyand Polysemy
Week 7 Syntactic Semantics: Contradiction, Ambiguity, Semantic anomaly
Week 8 Syntactic Semantics: Entailment, Presupposition
Week 9 Pragmatics and Language
Week 10 Principals of Pragmatics
Week 11 Context and Discourse
Week 12 Speech act theory complex speech acts
Week 13 Felicity conditions
Week 14 Conversational implicature
The cooperative principle
Week 15 Conversational maxims
Relevance
Week 16 Politeness
Phatic tokens
Deixis

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