Course Name	Pragmatics
Credits	2
Professor(s)	Name	Kwangho Lee
	Affiliation	Dept. of English Language and Literature

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

It is designed to provide students with knowledge of important pragmatic principles and to enable them to understand and analyze pragmatic phenomena of English correctly and to use and teach the language properly.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Main Textbook:

Yule, George (1996).     Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further Reading:

Mey, Jacob L. (2001). Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments: Pragmatic Problem Set 1 (Oct. 22); Pragmatic Problem Set 2 (Nov. 26)
Grading Scheme: Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(40%), Assignments(20%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week 1: Definitions and background
Week 2: Deixis and distance
Week 3: Reference and inference

Week 4: Presupposition
Week 5: Entailment
Week 6: Cooperation
Week 7: Implicature

Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Speech acts
Week 10: Speech events
Week 11: Politeness
Week 12: Interaction
Week 13: Conversation and preference structure
Week 14: Discourse and culture

Week 15: Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-751-5886        e-mail: kngrhee@hanmail.net