【重点大学语言学】Chapter 5Semantics Teaching Plan.doc

Chapter 5 Semantics Objectives The students will learn how to understand meaning in language and enhance their language ability so that they will become better-informed and thus more-qualified English teachers in the near-future. Students will be able to 1) identify and analyze various approaches to meaning, 2) identify and analyze the meaning of words or sentences 3) produce effective and appropriate utterances. Key Points 1) The schools of semantics 2) The definition of semantics 3) Approaches to meaning 4) Word meaning 5) Sentence meaning 6) Sense relationships 7) Semantic analysis Time required: 160 minutes Procedure Step1. Introduction (10 minutes) Teacher introduces semantics to students by starting with a few interesting cases of meaning in language in daily life to arouse students’ interest in semantics. Step2. Presentation (90 minutes) Step2.1 (30 minutes) 5.1 The definition of semantics 5.2 Approaches to meaning 5.2.1 Meaning as naming 5.2.2 Meaning as concept 5.2.3 Meaning as behaviour 5.2.4 Meaning as context 5.2.5 Meaning as truth conditions Teacher (T) teaches the above contents (students (Ss) summarize and T gives feedback (Ss do exercises and T gives feedback Step2.2 (30 minutes) 5.3 Word meaning 5.3.1 Sense and reference 5.3.2 Seven types of meaning Conceptual meaning Connotative meaning Social meaning Affective meaning Reflective meaning Collocative meaning Thematic meaning 5.3.3 Lexical fields 5.3.4 Componential analysis 5.3.5 Semantic relationships between words Homonymy Polysemy Homophony Synonymy Antonymy Hyponymy Meronymy T teaches the above contents, Ss give more examples (Ss summarize and T gives feedback (Ss do exercises and T gives feedback Step2.3 (30 minutes) 5.4 Sentence meaning 5.4.1 Sentence and proposition 5.4.2 Semantic roles 5.4.3 Semantic relationships between sentences Entailment Presupposition Synonymy Inconsistency Implicature T teaches the above contents, Ss give more examples (Ss summarize and T gives fee