The course provides third- year students of BA in The English Language with knowledge and skills to understand how speakers use words and sentences to convey meaning in context and the principles that lie behind the interpretation of utterances in specific situations. This course offers a broad overview of the concepts and tools which are required for analyzing how linguistic communication works such as illocution, locution, perlocution, performative utterances, felicity conditions, direct vs. indirect speech acts, cooperative communication, implicature and politeness. Students’ skills of analysis, critical thinking, discussion and teamwork are also promoted through class activities, such as lecturing, brainstorming, discussion, questions and answers, Group discussion assignment on pragmatic analysis, which helps to develop students’ analytical skills introduced in other courses of language theory.
- Teacher: GV Ngũ Thiện Hùng