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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module LING2221: PRAGMATICS 2

Department: LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

LING2221: PRAGMATICS 2

Type Open Level 2 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2005/06 Module Cap None. Location Durham

Prerequisites

  • Language in Context/Language in Society (LING1051).

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • 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:
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Subject-specific Skills:
    Key Skills:

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

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      Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

      Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
      Lectures
      Workshops
      Student Presentations
      Preparation and Reading 175

      Summative Assessment

      Component: Assignment 1 Component Weighting: 10%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      assignment 1 100%
      Component: Assignment 2 Component Weighting: 10%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      assignment 2 100%
      Component: Assignment 3 Component Weighting: 10%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      assignment 3 100%
      Component: Assignment 4 Component Weighting: 70%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      assignment 4 100%

      Formative Assessment:

      ■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University