INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS AND DISCOURSE (2 Credits)
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Explain the basic concepts of pragmatics and discourse; Apply the concepts of pragmatics and discourse in actual contexts; Analyze written and spoken discourse in actual communication.
Topics:
- Introduction;
- Speech Acts;
- Exploring Speech Acts;
- Conversation;
- The analysis of conversation;
- The Cooperative Principle;
- Following the Cooperative Principle;
- Politeness;
- Applying politeness;
- Corpora and communities;
- Corpora and communities: Exploration;
- Culture and language learning;
- Culture and language learning: Exploration.
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