COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRAGMATICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 2054 PRAGMATICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZGÜN KOŞANER

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

The objecive of this course is to get the students to study language use theoretically and in practice comprehensively; and learn how to comment on a given interaction considering context, speaker s meaning, the distance (social, spacial, positional) between the speaker and the listener, etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   the student is expected to able to identify the meaning in a particular context
2   the student is expected to able to reveal the problems relating intended meaning
3   the student is expected to able to analyze written or spoken texts pragmatically
4   the student is expected to able to say the basic pragmatic theories and concepts
5   the student is expected to able to obtain information about the scope and limitations of pragmatics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and short history of pragmatics and and its relation with different disciplines.
2 Deixis and its types
3 Reference, inference, and co-text
4 Presupposition and entailment
5 Cooperative Principle and converstional maxims
6 Components of the interactional context: language users
7 Components of the interactional context: linguistic channel and linguistic context
8 Mid-term exam
9 Components of the interactional context: production of context
10 Direct and indirect speech-acts
11 Face and politeness
12 Conversation analysis: pauses, interruption and adjacency pairs
13 Pragmatic awareness
14 Macro and micro pragmatic problems
15 General Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Cutting, J. (2002). Pragmatics and Discourse. London and New York: Routledge
2- Leech, Geoffrey N. (1983). Principles of Pragmatics.London: Longman.
3- Levinson, Stephen C.(1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP
4- Verschueren, J. (1999). Understanding Pragmatics. USA: Oxford UP
5- Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Question-answer
4. Application activities

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1- 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3- Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

meltem.sargin@deu.edu.tr
Ofis no: B 432
Ofis tel no: 0232 301 86 24

Office Hours

Monday 10:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1555
LO.25555
LO.35555
LO.45
LO.55

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