1. FAKULTAS : KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN PRODI : PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS MAKUL : SEMANTICS JML SKS: 2 SKS SEMESTER : 7 DOSEN: DEDY SUBANDOWO, M.A UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH METRO 2014

2. COURSE OVERVIEW LANGUAGE STRUCTUR E PHONETICS/ PHONOLOGY MORPHOLOGY SYNTAX SEMANTICS

3. THE MEANING OF LANGUAGE Speakers of Language can produce meaningful words to other speakers : 1)my bike is pink. (information) 2)Have you got breakfast? (ask question) 3)Stop talking! (give command) 4)May you have a happy life. (express wishes)

4. When you know a language Flick (meaningful) vs Blick (meaningless) Johan swims (meaningful) vs Swims logical every (meaningless) Bank (institution) vs Bank (river) Tono saw the girl with the telescope (ambiguity) Sofa and Couch (synonym) Rina put off the meeting vs Rina put the meeting off (same meaning) Alive vs Dead (opppositness)

5. Speakers know the real-word objects refer to like “chair in the corner”. They can also identify the knowledge even the words do not refer to an actual word “the beauty inside your heart”. When speakers have the capacity to discover whether the meaning of a sentence is being true or false it is called truth condition. 1)All kings are male [√] 2)All bachelors are married [X]

6. By knowing the meaning, you will know the kind of world knowledge that is needed. Intan’s cat got wet entails Intan bathed her cat

7. The Definition The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences is called semantics. Subfields of semantics are lexical meaning which is concerned with the meaning of words and the meaning relationship among words; phrasal or sentential semantics. It deals with syntactic units The study of how context affects meaning in certain situation is called pragmatics.