2010 Course Handbook
LING904: Pragmatics
This unit is an introduction to linguistic pragmatics. Content includes: speech act theory; conversational maxims; relevance implicature; communicative events and activity types; cognitive theory, scripts, schemata, frames; presupposition and mutual knowledge; conversational structure, clarification, repair and alignment; and critical discourse analysis.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: |
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Jill Murray |
| Prerequisites: | |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | TRAN904 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Linguistics Faculty of Human Sciences |