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LIN 343 Pragmatics

300 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

LIN 343 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and scope of pragmatics
  2. Deixis: person, place and time
  3. Speech act theory (Austin and Searle)
  4. The cooperative principle and Grice's maxims
  5. Conversational and conventional implicature
  6. Presupposition and entailment
  7. Politeness theory and face
  8. Reference and inference
  9. Context and meaning in interaction
  10. Pragmatics and other levels of linguistics

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Nature and scope of pragmatics

The nature and scope of pragmatics centres on how meaning is interpreted in context, not just from the words and grammar of an utterance. For exam purposes, you must master what pragmatics studies, how it differs from related areas like semantics, and the main areas it covers such as speaker meaning, context, inference, deixis, presupposition, implicature, and speech acts.

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