LIGN 160Pragmatics
An introduction to the context-dependent aspects of language meaning. Topics include given versus new information, Gricean maxims and rules of conversation, presupposition, implicature, reference and cognitive status, discourse coherence and structure, and speech acts.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “LIGN 101 or consent of instructor.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (4)
- Linguistics (B.A.)
- Linguistics (Cognition and Language) (B.A.)
- Linguistics (Language and Society) (B.A.)
- Linguistics (Speech and Language Sciences) (B.A.)