This course, Introduction to Pragmatics, an important sub-field of linguistics which is the study of contextualized meaning in language, provides the students the opportunity to analyze relationship between the meaning of an utterance and the context in which the utterance is produced. Moreover, a wide range of topics in the discipline, such as presupposition, implicature, speech acts, deixis and reference will be explored. Students will read original and recent work in these areas, and engage themselves in analyzing different types of utterances and their meanings as they are shaped by different pragmatic factors.
- Teacher: ZAYDA ASUNCION
- Enrolled students: 3