The 16-week plan covers semantics and pragmatics for an English course. It begins with early theories of meaning and progresses through topics like semantic fields, sense relations, syntactic semantics, pragmatics principles, speech act theory, conversational implicature, and politeness. The plan examines key concepts in semantics and pragmatics over 16 weeks through exploring topics such as types of meaning, lexical relations, ambiguity, context, and deixis.
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BS English 5th Semester Syllabus Division
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16 week plan of SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS ENGL-3115 BS English 5th Semester (1)
The 16-week plan covers semantics and pragmatics for an English course. It begins with early theories of meaning and progresses through topics like semantic fields, sense relations, syntactic semantics, pragmatics principles, speech act theory, conversational implicature, and politeness. The plan examines key concepts in semantics and pragmatics over 16 weeks through exploring topics such as types of meaning, lexical relations, ambiguity, context, and deixis.
The 16-week plan covers semantics and pragmatics for an English course. It begins with early theories of meaning and progresses through topics like semantic fields, sense relations, syntactic semantics, pragmatics principles, speech act theory, conversational implicature, and politeness. The plan examines key concepts in semantics and pragmatics over 16 weeks through exploring topics such as types of meaning, lexical relations, ambiguity, context, and deixis.
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