SYLLABUS OF PRAGMATICS

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.