Course Main Objective
To make students acquainted with characteristics of Arabic structures and their denotations through the disciplines of semantics including a theoretical and applied study of selected models from the ancient and modern topics which in turn enable students to find out properties of speech structures and learn about the precise differences among systems thinking methods and unveil such aesthetics relating to the structures and their expressive properties.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
- 1.1 Explain the concept of semantics and its disciplines and properties of linguistic structures.
- 2. Skills
- 2.1 Analyze structures and characteristics of semantic wording rhetorically to unveil their aesthetic secrets.
- 2.2 Use communication and information technology in performing assignments and analyzing texts according to the disciplines of semantics and communicate via the available electronic means.
- 3. Values
- 3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect professional relationships upon performing the assignments relating to the semantics and its disciplines.
- 3.2 Observe the scientific and academic integrity upon performing the rhetoric assignments achieving traits of the responsible citizen.
Course Content
- Semantics: its concept, importance and rhetoric purposes.
- Cases of predicate attribution: its concept and types
- Composition styles
- Mentioning and omission
- Foregrounding and backgrounding
- Definiteness and indefiniteness
- Restriction
- Conjunction and disjunction
- Brevity, equality and verbosity
- An applied study of semantics on examples from the munificent Quran and the Prophetic Hadith and from artistic texts.
Textbook (s)
- Abou Mossa, Muhammad. M. Characteristics of Structures (An Analytical Study on Semantics). Wahba Bookshop, Cairo, 9th ed., 1435H-2014AD
- Abou Mossa, Muhammad. M. Semantic Meanings of Structure (A Rhetorical Study). Wahba Bookshop, Cairo (n.ed.) 1435H-2014AD
Course ID: ARAB 304
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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