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Designing Syllabus for ENG-323 Semantics

Submitted To

Honorable Miss. Salma Khatoon

Submitted By

Asif Raza EN120152052

Asim Qayum EN120152006

Majid Akbar EN120152055

Rizwan Ahmad EN120152034

Shahid Din EN120152042

Sabir Shah EN120152053

 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,

KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY KOHAT,

KHYBER PAKHTOONKHWA PAKISTAN.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Course Details

 Introduction to the Course

 Aims of the course

 Course Objectives

 General Description

 Course Contents

 Syllabus

 Evaluation Criteria

 Recommended Readings

 References
COURSE DETAILS

Course Name: ENG-323 Semantics

Credit Hours: 3 hours/week

INTRODUCTION

This course supplies a theoretical and empirical understanding into

the principles and basic ideas in the area of Semantics. Besides, it intends to nourish
critical argumentation of these concepts in relation to practical teaching contexts with
which students are familiar. In doing so, the course aims to provide the students with
the necessary knowledge to relate various semantic concepts to a wider model of
education.

AIMS

This course is intended for BS/MA (English) students. It provides an in-depth

treatment of Semantics for students who do not know the nitty-gritty of Semantics.
The course proliferates learners with a firm decoding of fundamental areas in
Semantics and methods of semantic analysis. In addition to this, it also aspires to
advocate an active approach on the behalf of learners towards the subject matter.

OBJECTIVES

After successfully completing this course will be competent enough

to:

 recognize and elaborate concepts which are mandatory to the study of

communication.

 describe and debate on the semantic structure of lexemes and affinity among
them.

 they will also have a rich knowledge of the semantic construction of sentences.

To sum up, this course will empower students with more particularized
aspects of semantic analysis.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This course will acquaint the students with Semantics, which is

commonly defined as the study of meaning in languages. It is considered as a part of
grammar, that is, it is part of morphology and syntax. This will assist the students to
understand what comprises meaning. The course deals the following types of
semantic theories: Early Theories Of Meaning (Ogden And Richards; Ferdinand De
Saussure). The study of semantics is deficient without the inclusion of meaning
relations between words or sense relations between lexical items. The following types
of semantic relations between words enable students to study meanings of expressions
within language and not outside it: synonymy, antonymy, complementarity, polysemy,
and metonymy etc. Sense relations between sentences also assist students to get
meanings of sentences. In the beginning of the end part of the course, we shall
consider paraphrase, contradiction, entailment and ambiguity etc.
CONTENTS OF THE COURSE

Topics that will be covered include:

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Semantics

Semantics and Semiotics

Word Meaning and Sentence Meaning

Utterances, Sentences and Propositions

Semantics and Pragmatics;

Semantic Fields

Exercise

Chapter 2: Meaning: Types and Theories

Word Meaning: Types of Meaning

Early Theories Of Meaning (Ogden And Richards; Ferdinand De Saussure)

Componential Analysis

Exercise
Chapter 3: Lexical Relations

Hyponymy

Synonymy

Antonymy

Polysemy

Homonymy

Exercise

Chapter 4: Syntactic Semantics

Contradiction

Ambiguity

Semantic Anomaly

Entailment

Presupposition

Exercise

UNIT 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF SEMANTICS (4 weeks/12 hours)

The first unit aims at building student teacher confidence and

understanding the the basic concepts in Semantics.

Week 1 Course Overview

 Introduction to the course

 Semantics and Semiotics

Week 2 Fundamentals of Semantics

 Word Meaning
  Sentence Meaning

 Utterances

 Sentences and Propositions

Week 3 Fundamentals of Semantics

 Semantics and Pragmatics

 Semantic Fields

Weak 4 Fundamentals of Semantics

 Word Meaning & Sentence Meaning

 Utterances, Sentences and Propositions

 Semantics and Pragmatics

Activity The students will have to solve exercise given at the end of chapter.

UNIT 2: MEANING: TYPES AND THEORIES (2 weeks/6 hours)

The unit will enable the students to get the knowledge regarding
Meaning and its types and theories.

Week 5 Meaning: Types of Meaning

 Word Meaning: Types of Meaning

 Early Theories Of Meaning (Ogden And Richards; Ferdinand De

Saussure)

Week 6 Meaning: Types of Meaning

 Early Theories Of Meaning (continue)

 Componential Analysis

Activity The students will be given handouts to read and different exercise for
componential analysis at home.
Week 7: Mid Term Examination

Week 8: Student’s Week

UNIT 3: LEXICAL RELATIONS (2 weeks/6 hours)

The first unit aims at building student teacher confidence and

understanding the factors that lead to communicating a thought, an idea or a message
clearly and effectively. From a sender to receiver, encoding to decoding a message,
the communication cycle comprises various verbal and non-verbal elements as well as
calling on the interpersonal skills of individuals.

Week 9 Lexical Relations

 Hyponymy

 Synonymy

 Antonymy

Week 10 Lexical Relations

 Polysemy

 Homonymy

 Homophones

Activity The students will be taken a quiz in this unit to assess whether they have
clearly understood the concepts or not.

Week 11: Presentations

UNIT 4: SYNTACTIC SEMANTICS (3 weeks/9 hours)

The first unit aims at building student teacher confidence and

understanding the factors that lead to communicating a thought, an idea or a message
clearly and effectively. From a sender to receiver, encoding to decoding a message,
the communication cycle comprises various verbal and non-verbal elements as well as
calling on the interpersonal skills of individuals.

Week 12 Syntactic Semantics

 Contradiction

 Ambiguity

Week 13 Lexical Relations

 Entailment

 Presupposition

Week 15 Lexical Relations

 Semantic Anomaly

 Course Review

Activity The students will be directed to write an assignment on any topic of the
course.

Week 16: Final Examination

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Total Marks: 100
 Mid Term: 30%

 Final Term: 40%

 Presentation: 10%

 Assignment: 5%

 Class Participation: 5%

 Quiz: 5%

 Tasks and Activities: 5%

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1: Palmer, F. 1992. Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2: Thomas, J. Meaning in Interaction.

3: Ogden, Charles and Ivor A. Richards. 1923 (1949). The meaning of meaning.
London: Kegan Paul.

4: Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

REFERENCES

1: Cunningsworth, Alan. 1995. Choosing Your Coursebook. Oxford:

Heinemann.

2: Khatoon, Salma. Class Lectures for the course Language Assessment.

3: Macalister, John. Language Curriculam Design. I.S.P Nation

4: Nunan, D. 1988. Syllabus Design. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5: Yalden, J. 1987. Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching.

Cambridge.

6: Yule, George. The Study of Language, 4th Edition: