LING7015
Sabena Lam2023-01-06T12:24:03+08:00LING7015 Pragmatics Dr. Leo Hoye MA Elective course. Sem 2Friday, 9:30 am – 12:20 pm Venue: RRST-4.04 Course Description The course introduces students to linguistic and extralinguistic approaches to language use and the making of meaning, where the roles of language users, their interlocutors, and the contexts in and through which they act and use language are considered paramount. As a contextually-driven perspective on meaning, Pragmatics contrasts with Semantics which tends to focus on instances of language – linguistic expressions – that are abstracted from their real-world contexts of use. Topics to be explored include both canonical and current approaches to meaning [...]