ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD (Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics) WARNING

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2. PLAGIARISM OR HIRING OF GHOST WRITER(S) FOR SOLVING THE ASSIGNMENT(S) WILL DEBAR THE STUDENT FROM AWARD OF DEGREE/CERTIFICATE, IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM OTHER(S) AS ONES OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY. Semester: Spring, 2010 Total Marks: 100

Course: Semantic & Discourse Analysis (557) Level: MA TEFL Pass Marks: 40

ASSIGNMENT No. 1
(Reading Passages 16) Q.1 What do you understand by the term Semantics? Q.2 What is the relationship between Semantics and Linguistics? Q.3 (10) (10)

How would you differentiate between Speaker meaning and Sentence meaning? (10) (10) (10) (10)

Q.4 Give a two-part definition of the term Utterance. Q.5 Define the terms Proposition and Theory. Q.6 What do the writers mean when they say: utterance as being tokens of sentences, phrases or single words.

Q.7 How would you comment on the following statement: (15) One important characteristic of the linguistic approach towards the study of Language is that it is not concerned merely with the written language, but also with the spoken language. Q.8 What is different between semantics as studied by linguists and semantics studied by philosopher and logicians? (15) Q.9 What do you understand by the terms Sense and Reference? (10)

ASSIGNMENT No. 2
(Reading Passages 712) Q.1 Explain briefly the following terms: Discourse Analysis Communicative act Rules of use Contextual appropriacy Q.2 How would you comment on the following statement: The world is one of the basic units of semantics, yet there are difficulties. Total Marks: 100 (25)

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Q.3 How would you demonstrate with at least five examples that: (25) Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not very expression has reference. Q.4 Refer to the tutorial group activity given at the end of the reading passage 4 in the guide. (25) Construct a list of lexemes in the field CLASSROOM. Construct that list to form a tree diagram.

ASSIGNMENT No. 3
(Reading Passages 1318) Total Marks: 100 Q.1 Read the following and point out the Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts involved: (20) John and Harry are walking across a field. Harry sees a large dong bounding towards them, growing and showing its teeth. He shouts Quick! Up that free! Harry sees what is about to happen, they both shin up the free. Q.2 What is the common concern of Linguists, Ethnographers, Anthropologists and Psychologists? (20) Q.3 Define and describe Sinclairs categories of discourse. Q.4 (20)

Explain how a Communicative syllabus is different from a Grammatical syllabus.(20) (20)

Q.5 What do these terms mean? Illustrate your answer with examples: Conversational turns Conversation maneuvers

ASSIGNMENT No. 4
This assignment is more of a project or research work. You have to write a formal report and give a presentation in your tutorial session. 40 marks will be given on the written report. Please bear in mind that your written assignment / report must be written following conventions of formal writing, Read the booklet How to Write formal Reports and give Presentations: A Guide for TEFL students carefully. 60 marks will be given for your oral presentation. We will once again advise you to be prepared and confident.

Choose any one topic from the two given. 1. Discourse analysis is the name we give to communicative study that seeks to understand how conversation or talk functions. Take an example of a conversation or a talk and arrive at an interesting analysis. To accomplish this purpose, you will practicing the technical and analytic skills that comprise discourse analysis by listening, transcribing, and finally analyzing. Now decide on the conversation you are going to analyse. The conversation or talk can occur in a store with a salesperson, in the doctors office; among family members or friends; in political and workplace meetings; and on the telephone, basically choose a day-to-day life interaction. Listen to the conversation or talk, transcribe and analyse it on the lines as who the people are, their relationships, and the content of their conversation and develop an analysis of the conversation as a communicative event. 2. This question is concerned with aspects in Semantics. Demonstrate with examples meanings expressed by speakers and meanings expressed by words, phrases and sentences.