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English Literature
Day / Date** : Thursday, 18 January 2024 Code - Course : ENGL6230024 – English
Semantics and Pragmatics
Time** : 17.00 Code - Lecturer : D6214 – Devina, S.S.,
M.App.Ling
D5634 – Udiana Puspa
Dewi, S.S., MA, Ph.D.
D2666 – Prof. Dr. Dra.
Clara Herlina Karjo
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Learning Outcomes:
LO1 Explain the basic concepts of semantics and pragmatics.
LO2 Give examples of semantics and pragmatics concepts in daily communication.
LO3 Analyze the daily used language based on semantics and pragmatics concepts.

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Instruction
The final exam asks you to analyze a particular source / data with the concepts you have learnt
in English Semantics & Pragmatics course.

You are required to choose ONE of the following sources or data below. Note the minimum
requirement you will have to meet.
• Stand-up Comedy : at least 5 scenes.
• TV series : at least 5 scenes.
• Titles of online news headlines : at least 10 titles.
• Song : at least 3 songs.
• Poem : at least 3 poems.
• Politician’s speech : at least 6 minutes.
• Interview : at least 6 minutes.
• Scene from a movie : at least 6 minutes / 5 scenes.

See the details below.

1. Decide the source you’d like to analyze. Please show your data in the Appendix (e.g.,
excerpt, script). If you wish to go on with interview, stand-up, and TV series, you may
use external source of the transcript - if any (i.e., website that provides movie
transcript). Or simply, you can show the source by typing it manually.

2. See the following concepts. These are the concepts/topics in English Semantics &
Pragmatics.
- Referring Expression
- Presupposition
- Inference and Logic
Semantics
- Ambiguity
- Lexical Sense Relation
- Entailment
- Cooperative Principle
- Pragmatic Inference
Pragmatics - Conversational Analysis
- Speech Acts (Direct & Indirect)
- Politeness

3. Choose 2 to 3 concepts. Then, analyze the source with concept you choose. Some
examples:
o Analyze the use of figurative meaning, ambiguity, and reference in a song.
o Analyze the politeness, direct speech acts, and conversational analysis in a
politician’s speech.

4. Finally, make a short paper based on your analysis. Your paper should consist of:
o Abstract
o Chapter 1: Introduction: Background information, the purpose of writing the
paper, the outline of the paper.
o Chapter 2: Theoretical Background: The theory that you use for discussion.
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o Chapter 3: The material: Explain the source/data you have for analysis.
o Chapter 4: Finding: Discuss your finding.
o Chapter 5: Conclusion
o References
- Word count: 3000
- Formatting: Times New Roman/Calibri, 12 points, space 1.5.
Please use the following template. You can replace the yellow highlighted parts with your own
writing.

TITLE
Name
NIM/Course Name
Email Address

ABSTRACT
Abstract should be around 100-150 words, typed in Italics, single spaced. Abstract
contains purpose of study and result.
This paper is mainly based on the theory by Verdonk (2002), that ideological
perspectives might affect literary reading and those ideological perspectives are
represented in the language use. In this paper, the objects of the study are three poems
by Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman political leader in Burma, entitled In The Quiet Land,
Free bird towards a free Burma, Why do I have to fight? Those poems are read through
power relation struggle viewpoints. This paper wants to peruse the use of language
features in semantic level, syntactic level, graphological level and phonological level.
Those linguistic levels are observable in the text organization, tenses, dictions, and
punctuation to reveal the main ideology of the poems. The linguistic analysis will be
elaborated with the social practices as the contexts. The result shows that the linguistics
analysis might support and justify the ideological perspectives in reading literary
works.
Keywords: stylistics, ideological perspectives, critical discourse analysis

INTRODUCTION
The introduction section should include background of your study. The purpose of
writing the essay, the outline of the essay.
The focus of the literary reading has shifted from the authors’ viewpoints to the readers’
perspective. By focusing on the readers, it also shifts from textual into contextual
approach. Bradford mentions that the style of a text is influenced by the competence and
disposition of the readers, sociocultural forces, and the system of signification
(1997:72). In other words, the production of a text is not only done by the author
therefore the appreciation should also pay attention to the other contexts. The contexts
mentioned by Bradford take account more to the readers rather than to the authors.
Barthes’ The Death of the Author (in Bradford 1997) strengthens the claim that text
reading and interpretation might be conducted from the readers’ perspectives. He does
not claim that the authors are not influential but they are also the contexts along with the
sociocultural forces and readers’ competence.

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Elaborate the concept(s) you use for your analysis.
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THE MATERIAL
Explain the content of the clip/scene that you decided to choose.

DISCUSSION
The analysis on the language is conducted for each poem. The language features being
analyzed might vary due to the foregrounded ones. However, the analysis looks at the
detailed use of language as the nature of stylistics. Therefore, the analysis as much as
possible observes any linguistic levels including the text organization, tenses, dictions,
and punctuation.

CONCLUSION
From the discussion and analysis, linguistic analysis and approach are evidently feasible
to appreciate and understand literary works. However, the stylistic analysis is only a
supportive tool to endorse the intuition. The intuition depends on the sociocultural
values and ideology in the readers’ contexts. To deepen the intuition some research on
the literary works related discourses seems to be helpful. In this paper, stylistic analysis
has been conducted to support Critical Discourse Analysis toward three poems by Aung
San Suu Kyi, a woman political leader in Myanmar. The analysis on the linguistic
features supports the ideology found in the three poems. The ideology of the poems is
revealed by entangling the related contexts and then being finely justified by the
linguistic analysis. The linguistic analysis was conducted in the level of semantic,
syntactic, graphology, and phonology. However, each poem might need particular
analysis since they have their own foregrounded features.

REFERENCES
Abram, M.H., Geofrrey Galt Harpham. 2009. A Glossary of Literary Terms ninth edition. Boston:
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Adam, Martin T. 2006. Nonviolence and Emptiness: Buddha, Gandhi, and the ‘Essence of Religion’.
ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies. Volume 34 page 1-14. McGill University.
Bradford, Richard. 1997. Stylistics. London: Routledge.
Carter, R.A., P.W. Simpson. 1989. Language, Discourse, and Literature; An Introductory Reader in
Stylistics. London: Routledge.
Fairclough, Norman. 1995. Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language. Essex:
Longman Group Limited.
Fitzgerald, Michael Oren (ed). 2008. Introduction to Hindu Dharma; Illustrated. Bloomington: World Wisdom
Inc.Simpson, Paul. 1993. Language, Ideology, and Point of View. London: Routledge.
Jager, Siegfried. Ruth Wodak, Michael Meyer (ed). 2001. Discourse and Knowledge:
Theoretical and Methodological aspects of a critical discourse and dispositive analysis.
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage Publication.
Martin, J.R., P.R.R. White. 2005. The Language of Evaluation; Appraisal in English. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Wright, Hope, Jonathan Hope. 1996. Stylistics A Practical Coursebook. London:
Routledge. Verdonk, Peter. 2002. Stylistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://travel.cnn.com/aung-san-suu-kyi-draws-thousands-myanmars-first-literary-festival-137776 21:54
November 19, 2013
http://tavaana.org/en/content/aung-san-suu-kyi-leading-burmese-democracy-movement-0 21:43
November 19, 2013
Democracy in Brief. Bureau of International Program of United States.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/korea/49271/ dwoa_122709/Democracy-in-
Brief.pdf

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Learning Outcomes:
LO1: explain the basic concepts of semantics and pragmatics.
LO2 Give examples of semantics and pragmatics concepts in daily communication.
LO3 Analyze the daily used language based on semantics and pragmatics concepts.

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Write an analysis of speech act and conventional implicature meaning from one movie of your
choice.
a. Pick 10 dialogues in the movie that you think consist indirect speech acts
b. Provide the analysis of locution, illocution, and perlocution from each case of the
dialogue.
c. Based on the analysis, you are required to the conventional implicature of each case.

The scoring for the paper is :

a. The accuracy of the analysis and argument supporting the analysis (suitability with -
topic, materials, analysis etc.) (70)
b. Format, Coherency, and Grammar (30)

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