John Cainoy

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Syllabus & Schedule

This page includes the 18-week schedule and an embedded PDF of the full syllabus.

Weekly Outline (18 Weeks)

WeekDateTopic / Focus
Week 01Sat, Sep 13, 2025Course Overview & Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Week 02Sat, Sep 20, 2025Lexical Semantics — Word Meaning & Sense Relations
Week 03Sat, Sep 27, 2025Formal Semantics I: Compositional Semantics & Predicate Logic — Sentence Meaning and Truth Conditions
Week 04Sat, Oct 04, 2025Formal Semantics II: Intensional Semantics — Possible Worlds, Modality, and Counterfactuals
Week 05Sat, Oct 11, 2025Semantic Change, Lexical Innovation & Cognitive Semantics
Week 06Sat, Oct 18, 2025Semantics–Pragmatics Interface — Where Literal Meaning Meets Context
Week 07Sat, Oct 25, 2025Speech Act Theory
Week 08Sat, Nov 01, 2025Research Break 1 — Data Preparation & Analysis Planning
Week 09Sat, Nov 08, 2025Conversational Implicature
Week 10Sat, Nov 15, 2025Presupposition & Entailment
Week 11Sat, Nov 22, 2025Research Writing Day
Week 12Sat, Nov 29, 2025Deixis — Context-Bound Reference
Week 13Sat, Dec 06, 2025Politeness Theory & Facework
Week 14Sat, Dec 13, 2025Relevance Theory
Week 15Sat, Dec 20, 2025Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Week 16Sat, Dec 27, 2025Research Break 2 — Writing & Data Analysis
Week 17Sat, Jan 03, 2026Research Presentations (I)
Week 18Sat, Jan 10, 2026Research Presentations (II)

Full Syllabus (PDF)