On Thursday, October 27, 2022, the Department of English held the national workshop entitled “Theories of Meaning Revisited”. Asst. Lect. Meram Salim presented an introduction about what is Meaning, and the Approaches to meaning. She explained that meaning is a message conveyed by a speaker to the listener via a code. This code can be linguistic or non-linguistic. Also, it can be defined as a mental state that the speaker attempts to create it in the mind of the listener by means of a linguistic expression. Meaning is a very complex linguistic phenomenon. Then Prof. Dr. Misbah Al- Sulaimaan presented the Approaches to Meaning via diagrams. To understand its nature a multidisciplinary approach is needed, just like linguistic, semantic, pragmatic, stylistic, and logical approaches. He presented samples of meaning based on the approaches explained.
Workshop Outcome
Meaning is a living structure. It is the most complicated phenomenon among many other phenomena across all other disciplines. For example meaning is abstract and; therefore, cannot be realized, recognized and touched. The second reason is that meaning is not stable. It varies from one context to another. It also varies through the course of time.
Presenter/s Information
1. Prof. Dr. Misbah Mahmood Al-Sulaimaan, graduate of Mosul University. as BA, College of Education/Department of Languages/English Branch. As MA and Ph. D College of Arts/Department of English. He was promoted to professorship on 30/August/2010. He published more than 40 papers in local & international journals. And well-known for his two published books:
1. Semantics & Pragmatics (2016).
2. Translation: Theory & Practice(2016).
3. General English: A Coursebook for University Students(2020).
He supervised 67 Master Students and PhD students, and discussed more than 150 MA and PhD Theses.
2. Assistant Lecturer Meram Salim Shekh Mohamad joined Lebanese French University September 2021 as a faculty member of English Department, College of Education and Languages. She completed her Bachelor Degree in English Language and Literature at Salahaddin University-Erbil. She obtained her Master Degree at Soran University. She is well known for her teaching methods in literature, and she proved herself through her academic years of teaching.
