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 175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics

Note

Formerly available as 175-202/302. Students who have completed 175-202 or 175-302 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Gillian Wigglesworth

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Subject Description

This subject involves the study of language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives; speech act theory, conversational implicature, cross-cultural pragmatics and politeness theory. Other topics will include conversation analysis, genre analysis, patterns of cohesion, pragmatics, grammar and discourse. Students will have the opportunity to examine samples of real-life language use.

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