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Pragmatics: Meaning in Use

  • LING3004
  • not available in 2013 (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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This unit is an introduction to important concepts in pragmatics, the branch of linguistics dedicated to the study of meaning in context, and is concerned with explaining how speakers cooperate in discourse, how they draw inferences from other speakers' utterances, and how linguistic and non-linguistic context plays a role in our interpretation of utterances. <br/><br/>When we use language, the meaning we convey is contributed to a range of factors. Semantics is chiefly concerned with literal meaning, and describes the relations between words and expressions to the real world. Pragmatics on the other hand concentrates on aspects of meaning that cannot be predicted solely from linguistic... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: [LING2001 Grammatical Theory: the Structure of Sentences or LING2202 Grammatical Theory (Syntax)] and (LING2003 or LING1103 Language, Culture and Society)



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