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2009 Course Handbook

LING904: Pragmatics

An introduction to linguistic pragmatics. Content includes speech act theory; conversational maxims; relevance implicature; communicative events and activity types; cognitive theory, scripts, schemata, frames; presupposition and mutual knowledge; conversational structure, clarification, repair and alignment; critical discourse analysis.

Credit Points:4
Contact Hours:--
When Offered: D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: No session)
Staff Contact: Dr Jill Murray, Ms Helen Slatyer
Prerequisites:

Corequisites:

NCCWs:

TRAN904

Unit Designations: --
Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Faculty of Human Sciences

Timetable Information

For unit timetable information please visit the Timetables@Macquarie Website.

Recent Updates

17 Oct 2008 - EDUC80P

Program title amended