| Subject | PRAGMATICS |
| Credit | 2 SKS |
Purpose of the Study:
The Students are intended to know the definition, nature, history of Pragmatics and able to make pragmatic analysis on linguistic phenomenon..
Topics of Discussion
| 1 | The scope of Pragmatics: What is pragmatics Why do we need to study pragmatics? The difference between semantics and pragmatics. |
| 2 | Sentence meaning vs utterance meaning |
| 3 | Deictic words |
| 4 | Speech Act theory |
| 5 | Austin theory of locution, illocution and perlocution |
| 6 | Convensational vs conversational implicature |
| 7 | Presupposition and entailments |
| 8 | Levinson’s principle of politeness and interaction |
| 9 | The Gricean maxims |
| 10 | Pragmatics analysis on mass media |
Suggested Reading :
Mey, Jacob L. 1993. Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford. Blackwell Publishers.
Leech, Geoffrey. 1983. Principle of Pragmatics. Essex. England. Longman Group Ltd.
Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
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