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Overview of Course of Semantics & Pragmatics

The document outlines a course on Semantics and Pragmatics offered at Govt. Postgraduate College Mandian for BS English students in Spring 2025. It covers various components of language, including early theories of meaning, types of meaning, and key concepts from notable theorists. The course aims to explore both semantic and pragmatic meanings, focusing on how language is used in different contexts.

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Overview of Course of Semantics & Pragmatics

The document outlines a course on Semantics and Pragmatics offered at Govt. Postgraduate College Mandian for BS English students in Spring 2025. It covers various components of language, including early theories of meaning, types of meaning, and key concepts from notable theorists. The course aims to explore both semantic and pragmatic meanings, focusing on how language is used in different contexts.

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Govt.

Postgraduate College Mandian


Department of English
Subject: Semantics & Pragmatics Class: BS English 4th Batch: 07 Semester: Spring 2025 Facilitator: Rustam (Associate Professor of English)

Overview of Semantics & Pragmatics

Components of Language

In this course we will also study:


Sounds grammar meaning 1. Early theories of meaning such as
philosophical, logical,
psychological and
anthropological
2. Different types of meaning
Phonemes of all languages Morphemes phrases meaning: context-independent 3. Semiotic triangle of Ogden &
Phonemes of a specific language Lexemes (words) clauses & sentences meaning: context dependent Richards
4. Sign theory of Ferdinand de
Saussure
Phonetics Phonology Morphology Lexicology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics
Note
Most of above topics will already
have been covered by the time we
finish our discussion on
Semantic Meaning Pragmatic Meaning lexical semantics.
(Intra-language Usage) (Use in real-life situations: context)

Denotative/conceptual/basic/default/literal/textual /visible meaning Connotative/associative/derived/inferred/implied/contextual/invisible meaning


Semantics deals with word meaning & sentence meaning Pragmatics deals with invisible meaning or intended meaning by language users

Lexical semantics syntactic semantics pragmatic inferences (or inferred meaning):


Lexemes & words Propositions, sentences, utterances Linguistic context (co-text to infer meanings of deictic expressions)
Words & things/objects Sentences have propositions (truth-values) Physical or social context to infer meaning of implicature and speech acts etc.
Words & concepts/ideas Abstract sentences are realized via utterances Speakers convey meaning via implicature; listeners recognize meaning via inference
Words & sense Utterances belong to the domain of pragmatics Speakers have presuppositions; sentences have entailments.

Semantic/thematic roles meaning of contradictory sentences (contradiction) Deixis and distance


Semantic/componential features meaning of ambiguous sentences (ambiguity) Implicature (conversational implicature, cooperative principle, conversational maxims
Lexical/Sense relations meaning of anomalous sentences (anomaly) Speech act: speech acts are successful only if they satisfy several criteria called felicity conditions
(homonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, meaning of paraphrased sentences (paraphrase) Phatic communication (tokens): the phrase was coined by Malinowski and used by Ogden & Richards
Synonymy, antonymy) sentences have entailment; utterances have presupposition Politeness theory: negative and positive faces. Presupposition and entailment

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