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.
- อาจารย์: GV Ngũ Thiện Hùng