國立中興大學教學大綱

課程名稱	(中) 語意學(5229)
	(Eng.) Semantics
開課單位	外文系
課程類別	選修			學分	3	授課教師	楊謦瑜
選課單位	外文系 / 碩士班			授課使用語言	中/英文	開課學期	1151
課程簡述	This course aims to introduce students to concepts and methods used in the field of semantics. Semantics is the branch of Linguistics which analyzes the meanings of linguistic units, such as words and sentences. Topics covered in the course include lexical semantics, event semantics, formal semantics, construction grammar, metaphor, semantic change and corpus-based approach to semantics. By the end of the semester, students will be acquainted with general concepts and approaches of semantics and develop skills required for understanding semantic papers and tackling various puzzling semantic phenomena.
先修課程名稱

課程與核心能力關聯配比(%)			課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標	核心能力	配比(%)	教學方法	評量方法
By the end of this course, students will: 1. To have a better understanding of basic concepts and methods of semantics 2. To be familiar with topics often investigated in semantic studies 3. To learn how to investigate data and propose a semantic analysis			專題探討/製作 習作 討論 講授	書面報告 出席狀況 口頭報告 作業 測驗
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容 第1週 (9/8) Orientation; Semantics in Linguistics 第2週 (9/15) Meaning, Thought, and Reality 第3週 (9/22) Word Meaning 第4週 (9/29) Sentence Relations and Truth 第5週 (10/6) Corpus-based Approach to Semantics 第6週 (10/13) Semantic Change 第7週 (10/20) Metaphor 第8週 (10/27) Lin & Chung (2018), Hong (2014) 第9週 (11/3) Midterm Exam 第10週 (11/10) Invited Talk 第11週 (11/17) Finding Research Questions 第12週 (11/24) Literature Review 第13週 (12/1) Methods and Tools of Doing Semantic Research 第14週 (12/8) Individual Conferences (I) 第15週 (12/15) Final Project Presentation (Poster) 第16週 (12/22) Individual Conferences (II) 自主學習 內容    01.參與專業論壇、講座、企業分享等產官學研相關交流活動    03.製作專題報告 attending a linguistic talk or a linguistic conference and submitting your reflections
學習評量方式
Attendance & Assignments 20% Midterm Exam 35% Poster presentation 20% Final project 20% Self-directed Learning I 5%
教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
Saeed, John I. 2016. Semantics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. [Fourth edition; original edition published 1997.] Papers: Chen, R., & Hu, X. (2020). “Be Suicided”: A Construction Grammar Analysis of the Innovative bèi Construction in Chinese. Cognitive Semantics, 6(1), 83-106. Fan, J. (2014). Study on Chinese Spatial Metaphors at Lexical Level. Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 4(3). Hong, J. F. (2014). Chinese near-synonym study based on the chinese gigaword corpus and the chinese learner corpus. In Chinese Lexical Semantics: 15th Workshop, CLSW 2014, Macao, China, June 9--12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers 15(pp. 329-340). Springer International Publishing. Huang, C. R., & Chang, S. M. (1996). Metaphor, metaphorical extension, and grammaticalization: A study of Mandarin Chinese. Conceptual structure, discourse and language, 201-216. Huang, S. M., & Hsieh, S. C. Y. (2008). Grammaticalization of directional complements in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics, 9(1), 49-68. Lin, M. C., & Chung, S. F. (2018). A Corpus-Based Lexical Semantic Study of Mandarin Verbs: Guān and Bì. In Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26–28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers 19 (pp. 358-371). Springer International Publishing. Yeh, J. C. (2006). On the excessive construction in Mandarin Chinese. Concentric: studies in Linguistics, 32(2), 93-118. Yu, N. (2003). Chinese metaphors of thinking.
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課程輔導時間
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