Introduction
0.1 Introducing the field of pragmatics
0.2 The emergence of pragmatics 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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
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
In-Class Activities
Exercises
Recommended Readings
Part Ⅱ Aspects of Linguistic Interaction
Part Ⅲ Constructing Unified Theories of
Part Ⅳ Pragmatics:Two Applications
Glossary
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References