Introduction
0.1 Introducing the field of pragmatics
0.2 The emergence ofpragmatics as a field
0.3 Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics
0.4 Pragmatics as a functional perspective
0.5 Basic notions in pragmatic studies
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Part Ⅰ From Philosophy of Language to
Linguistic Pragmatics
Unit 1 Austin''s Speech Act Theory
Pre-Class Reading
1.1 Words and deeds
1.2 Properties of an explicit performative utterance
1.3 Locution, illocution, and perlocution
1.4 Illocutionary Speech acts classified
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Unit 2 SAT: Later Developments
Pre-Class Reading
2. l Illocutionary Speech acts reclassified
2.2 Felicity conditions
2.3 Indirect speech acts
2.4 Extended speech acts
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Unit 3 Gricean Pragmatics: Implicature
Pre-Class Reading
3.1 Natural vs. non-natural meaning
3.2 Implicature and implication
3.3 Types of implicatures
3.4 Features of conversational implicatures
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Unit 4 Gricean Pragmatics: The Cooperative
Principle
Pre-Class Reading
4.1 CP: the principle
4.2 CP: the maxims
4.3 Non-observance of the maxims
4.4 Calculating conversational implicatures
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Unit 5 Neo-Gricean Pragmatics
Pre-Class Reading
5.1 Q- and R-Principles
5.2 Q-, I- and M-Principles
5.3 Anaphora: a case study
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Part Ⅱ Aspects of Linguistic Interaction
Unit 6 Deixis
Pre-Class Reading
6.1 The encoding of context
6.2 Deixis: types and properties
6.3 Person deixis
6.3 Place deixis and time deixis
6.5 Social deixis and discourse deixis
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Unit 7 Pragmatic Presupposition
Pre-Class Reading
7.1 Entailment and presupposition
7.2 Pragmatic presupposition
7.3 Cancellation of presupposition
7.4 Projection problems with presupposition
7.5 Presupposition triggers
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Unit 8 Conversation Analysis
Pre-Class Reading
8.1 Turn-taking in conversation
8.2 Adjacency pairs
8.3 Presequences
8.4 Conversational repairs
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Unit 9 Politeness in Conversation
Pre-Class Reading
9.1 Approaches to politeness
9.2 PP: the principle and its maxims
9.3 Clashes and tradeoffs between the maxims
9.4 PP: a reformulation
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Unit 10 Doing FTAs in Conversation
Pre-Class Reading
10.1 The notion of face
10.2 Face-threatening acts
10.3 Strategies of doing FTAs
10.4 Factors behind the strategy choice
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Part Ⅲ Constructing Unified Theories of
Language Use
Unit 11 Relevance Theory 1
Pre-Class Reading
1 l. 1 Communication: the code model
11.2 Communication: the inferential model
11.3 Communication: ostension and inference
11.4 Context in RT: a cognitive construct
11.5 Relevance: cognitive effects and processing efforts
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Unit 12 Relevance Theory 2
Pre-Class Reading
12.1 Relevance: two principles
12.2 Types of cognitive effects
12.3 Calculating cognitive effects
12.4 Explicatures vs. implicatures
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Unit 13 Adaptation Theory
Pre-Class Reading
13.1 Adaptability, variability, and negotiability
13.2 Language use as choice-making
13.3 Context: yet a new account
13.4 Language use as a dynamic process
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Part Ⅳ Pragmatics: Two Applications
Unit 14 Pragmatics and Translation
Pre-Class Reading
14.1 Translation as communication
14.2 Translating pragmatic meanings
14.3 Layers of pragmatic equivalence
14.4 Strategies of pragmatic translation
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Unit 15 Developing L2 Pragmatic Competence
Pre-Class Reading
15.1 L2 pragmatic competence
15.2 Teaching L2 pragmatics
15.3 Pragmatic transfer and pragmatic failures
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Glossary
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References