|     Subject  |        PRAGMATICS  |   
|     Credit  |        2 SKS  |   
Purpose of the Study:
            The Students are intended to know the definition, nature, history of Pragmatics and able to make pragmatic analysis on linguistic phenomenon..
Topics of Discussion
|     1  |        The   scope of Pragmatics: What is pragmatics Why do we need to study pragmatics?   The difference between semantics and pragmatics.  |   
|     2  |        Sentence   meaning vs utterance meaning  |   
|     3  |        Deictic   words  |   
|     4  |        Speech   Act theory  |   
|     5  |        Austin   theory of locution, illocution and perlocution  |   
|     6  |        Convensational   vs conversational implicature  |   
|     7  |        Presupposition   and entailments  |   
|     8  |        Levinson’s   principle of politeness and interaction  |   
|     9  |        The   Gricean maxims  |   
|     10  |        Pragmatics   analysis on mass media  |   
Suggested Reading :
Mey, Jacob L. 1993. Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford. Blackwell Publishers.
Leech, Geoffrey. 1983. Principle of Pragmatics. Essex. England. Longman Group Ltd.
Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford. Oxford University Press.