Postgraduate Course: Pragmatics (MSc) (LASC11097)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | We emphasize the role of pragmatics across a range of sub-disciplines within linguistics. |
| Course description |
The course is about how language acquires meaning in context. In many situations, what speakers mean goes beyond what they explicitly say. This course discusses formal models which have been proposed for explaining how these meanings are conveyed between cooperative interlocutors. Specific topics include presuppositions and implicatures, which often arise within the sentence, as well as higher level discourse phenomena such as coreference and coherence. We examine these using both naturally occurring data and the results of experimental investigation.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 27,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Homework 1: 15%
Homework 2: 15%
Final assignment: 70% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- understand and discuss important concepts in pragmatics
- analyse naturally occurring linguistic data for both structure and function
- evaluate different kinds of explanation in the field of pragmatics
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Engage critically with primary research literature
Compose an argument supported by experimental evidence |
| Keywords | pragmatics,meaning,context |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher Cummins
Tel: (0131 6)50 6858
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Course secretary | Mrs Elinor Lange
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: |
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