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This course introduces the field of pragmatics, roughly, that part of linguistics that deals with the use of linguistic utterances in concrete contexts. Traditionally, the field has been divided into the areas deixis (reference to entities in the context), speech act theory (the rules guiding linguistic interaction), presuppositions (implicit statements whose truth is a precondition for the felicitous use of an utterance) and implicatures (implicit statements that follow from what has been said). In this course, we will review all these areas but will also cover additional topics that have also been subsumed under pragmatics, examples here are metaphor, irony, politeness, historical and cross-cultural pragmatics. |
