Revision Session 2

ENGL112 – Twelfth Night

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ENGL113 – Feminism

Reading
 Norton Anthology: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
 Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
 Norton Anthology: Monique Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman
 Norton Anthology: Judith Butler, extracts from Gender Trouble

Questions for the Week

 How do we define ‘feminism’?

 What do feminist literary critics do?
 Who are the major theorists?
 How does feminism intersect with race and class?

Key Words

 Feminism  Gender
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ENGL116 – Understanding Meaning: Semiotics

and Semantics

Reading

 Danesi, M. (2007). The Quest for Meaning. Toronto: University of

Toronto Press.
 Chapter 1 (pp.1-27)
 Chapter 2 (pp.28-50)
 Encyclopedia Britannica entries for: Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles
Sanders Peirce
 Yule, G. (2014). The Study of Language. 6th Edition. Cambridge: CUP.
Chapter 9.

Threshold Concepts

 From signs as ‘carriers’ of meaning to meaning as an integral part of the

sign.
 Words as types of signs
 Definition of sign for Saussure; Definition of sign for Peirce; naming
correctly the components of the signs in the two models, understanding
the differences between the two models.
 Types of signs: icon, index, symbol.
 Positioning of the field of semantics as opposed to semiotics and other
disciplines studying meaning. Including: Linguistic meaning – which
linguistic units carry meanings and in what way? Which units are studied
by semantics?
 Duality of Patterning
 Problematising the notion of “meaning”: content/concept/thought/idea
vs referent/designatum.
 Feature-based semantic analysis – and its shortcomings
 Prototype Theory
  Semantic relations (via independent study) and their problematisation
 Sense relations (lexical semantics) (via independent study) and their
problematisation

Basic Linguistic Analysis Concepts

 Sound (see also Yule 2014: ch.3)

 Phoneme (see also Yule 2014: ch.4)
 Morpheme (see also Yule 2014: ch.6)
 Semantic features (Yule 2014: ch.9)
 Prototypes (Yule 2014: ch.9)
 Semantic role (agent and patient/theme; instrument; beneficiary;
recipient; experiencer; location; source; goal; cause; location, temporal)
(Yule 2014: ch.9)
 Lexical relations (synonymy; antonymy; polysemy; homography;
homophony; taxonomy: hyponymy/hyperonymy; metaphor; metonymy;
simile) (Yule 2014: ch.9)
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 Self-Study Material