Deskripsi Mata Kuliah :
The lesson deals with linguistic meaning, kinds of basic elements to make reference in characterizing the meanings of words or other linguistic units,kinds of relevant data, and how to evaluate the various possible types of data and how word meanings change. Theoretical topics covered include categorization construal acquisition of concepts metaphor blending metonymy compositionality mental spaces lexical semantic change. Various semantic domains will be examined in connection with these topics, e.g. color terms, kinship, dimensional terms, verb meaning but two domains will be treated in depth from various perspectives: the semantics of everyday concepts, and the semantics of space and motion. For pragmatics theoritical frameworks are speech acts,implicature, presupposition, relevant theory, cooperative principles, politeness principles, references, deixies, contexts and co-texts. The final project is documenting the short functional teks are found in the public areas to interpret the communication functions.

Capaian Mata Kuliah :

1. Possesing knowledge of theories of Meaning
2. Displaying good knowledge of how meanings are implied in words and speakers
3. Being able to decide the appropriate approaches in meaning to analyse advertisements and politician&rsquos speeches
4. Being responsible for applying politeness principles to complete the final project by surveying the students&rsquo speech act toward their lecturers in academic setting.

Sumber Rujukan :

• References
• Crystal, D. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language. New York: Cambridge :University Press.
• Cruse, D. A. 1990. Language Meaning and Sense: Semantics. In N. E. Collinge (Ed.). An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge
• Cruse, D. Alan.2000. Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics.NY: Oxford University Press.
• Cutting, Joan. 2002. Pragmatics and Discourse: A resource book for students. New York: Routledge.