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EGL402

Categories: Part 4, University Courses

About Course

EGL402 (Pragmatics) aims to teach you how Pragmatics is born by the marriage of semantics and context. Many of the semantic concepts from EGL206 will be revisited, with more extra layers.

What Will You Learn?

  • Historical background of Pragmatics
  • The centrality of context in Pragmatics
  • Theories like Speech Acts and Cooperative Principles
  • Differences between performatives and constatives
  • Differences between implicit and explicit performatives
  • Felicity conditions
  • Euphemism vs dysphemism
  • And many other pragmatic concepts

Course Content

The Nature of Pragmatics

  • Introduction
    09:49
  • History of Pragmatics
    13:25
  • Scholarly Definitions of Pragmatics
    11:31

Context in Pragmatics

Speech Acts Theory

Cooperative Principles

Concepts in Pragmatics

Cross Cultural Adaptations

Politeness Theory

Euphemism

Dysphemism

Meaning in Different Social Contexts

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Ganiyat ADESINA
5 months ago
Great!

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