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Undergraduate Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module LING2221: PRAGMATICS 2

Department: Linguistics and English Language

LING2221: PRAGMATICS 2

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Open	2	20	Available in 2005/2006	None.	Durham

Pre-requisites

Language in Context/Language in Society (LING1051).

Corequisites

None.

Excluded Combinations

None.

Aims

To provide an in-depth understanding of how the metalinguistic or diacritic cues that accompany propositional meaning enable hearers to recover speakers' pragmatic meanings.
In particular, to show the relationship between pragmatic marking as studied within an 'empirical pragmatics' approach and the sequential properties of talk as studied in Conversation Analysis.

Content

Linguistic pragmatics.
Relevance theory.
Conversation analysis.
Politeness theory.
Reflexivity.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

Subject-specific Skills

Key Skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours	Attendance Monitored
Lectures				0
Workshops				0
Student Presentations				0
Preparation and Reading				175
Total				175

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Element Weighting
Assignment 1	10%	assignment 1	100%
Assignment 2	10%	assignment 2	100%
Assignment 3	10%	assignment 3	100%
Assignment 4	70%	assignment 4	100%

Formative Assessment

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.