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Readings/References/Notes |
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Semantics: its definition, subject, and its relationship to other sciences. |
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The origins and development of semantics. |
2 |
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The semantic lesson of the Greeks, Indians, and Arabs. |
3 |
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The semantic lesson for Westerners, Americans, and Arabs. |
4 |
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First mid-term exam |
5 |
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Types of semantics: phonological, morphological, grammatical, rhetorical and stylistic, social semantics. |
6 |
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The center and margin in semantic - factors of semantic development, and its symptoms. |
7 |
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Methods of studying meaning: sign theory, conceptual theory. |
8 |
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Contextual theory. |
9 |
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Second mid-term exam |
10 |
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Behavioral theory. |
11 |
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Semantic fields theory. |
12 |
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Imaginative theory, generative theory - semantic relations. |
13 |
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Lexicology. |
14 |
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reviewer
1- Applied Semantics, Hadi Nahr, Dar Al-Amal, Jordan.
2- Semantics, Ahmed Mohtar Omar, 1998, The World of Books / Cairo.
3- An Introduction to Modern Semantics, Abdul Majeed, Jahfa, Dar Toubkal / Casablanca 2000.