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