PRAGMATICS                                        CLASS FOCUS                                      S.WEI

 

1. Introduction

  Levinson, S. 1983.  Pragmatics.  Cambridge Univ. Press

2. Deixis  Ch.2

3. Conversational implicature  Ch.3

4. Presupposition  Ch.4

5. Speech acts  Ch.5

6. Conversational structure  Ch.6

  Grundy, P. 1995.  Doing Pragmatics.  New York: Edward Arnold

7. Project work in pragmatics  Ch.10

  Pragmatic theory and application  Ch.11

  Oaks, D. ed. 1998.  Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications.

        New York/London: Harcourt Brace College Publishers

8. (Therapy) Facilitating grammatical development: The contribution of pragmatics, by Leonard and Fey, 129-151.

9. (Composition) Tone as a function of presupposition in technical and business writing, by Riley and Parker, 453-472.

10. (Law) Mc-:meaning in the marketplace, by Lentine and Shuy, 65-85.

11. (Law) Language and memories in the judicial system, by Loftus, 3-14.

12. (Language planning) Applied linguistics and language policy and planning, by Kaplan, 420-443.

13. (Literature) Studying literatures as language, by Fowler, 553-564.

14. (Semiotics) Semaphor: A meeting of metaphor and semiosis on the streets of Taipei, by David Cornberg, in Semiotica 109-3/4(1996), 251-282.

15. (Social movement) Language and revolution: formulae of the Cultural Revolution, by Yuan, J. et al. in Language in Society, 19, 61-79, 1990

16. (Advertisement) Advertising sounds as cultural discourse, by Brian Moeran, in Language & Communication, Vol.4, No.2, 147-158, 1984.

17. (Speech acts) Threats and illocutions, by Frank Nicoloff, in Journal of Pragmatics 13 (1989) 501-522.

18. (Pragmatics and semantics interface) Generalized implicature and the semantics/pragmatics interface, Ch.3 in Stephen C. Levinson, 2000, Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature, UK/USA: The MIT Press

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