English Semantics

Course Description

This course examines topics in the linguistic significance of lexical and sentential semantics within the linguistic and signs system in English. The scientific material of the course focuses on the significance of meaning structure and abstract relationships between words (such as homophony, synonymy, semantic correlation, semantic implication, linguistic symmetry, convergence, and entailment, etc.). The course also focuses on providing students with the scientific expertise necessary to verify the conditions of truth in verbal expressions and the interpretation and processing of semantic ambiguity of words and sentences.

Required Course Background 

- The basics of linguistic disciplines, theories, terminology, and notions.
- English language skills 1,2,3 and English Phonology, syntax, and morphology.

Required Course Materials
Tô Minh Thanh (2011). Ngữ nghĩa học – English Semantics (3rd Ed.). Hochiminh City: VNU Publishing House. (Download: here)

Course Syllabus
Students can download the Syllabus for English Semantics (Download here)  Supporting Course Materials The course covers the following topics:
Lecture 01_semantics-in-linguistics Download
Lecture 02_meaning-thought-and-reality Download
Lecture 03_word-meaning Download
Lecture 04_sentence-relations-and-truth Download
Lecture 05_sentence-semantics-1-situations Download
Lecture 06_sentence-semantics-2-participants Download
Lecture 07_context-and-inference Download
Lecture 08_functions-of-language-speech-as-action Download
Lecture 09_meaning-components Download
Lecture 10_cognitive-semantics Download

Course Work and Evaluation:
- Online: You will write a short paper on a specific topic in semantics that you have guided before. (Click here to download a template)

or

- Offline: You will ask to do the Writing test for a variety of topics that you have ever learned.   

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Final assignment submission: https://forms.gle/QHJfiVX3qUoB3Kb38

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