UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

ENG- 324 : Pragmatics

Course Code: ENG-324 Course Title: Pragmatics

Year: 2022 Semester: Spring
Instructor’s Name: Behzad Anwar Office: R-16
E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Course Description The aim of the course is to introduce the learners with the
contextual nature of meaning. The course will introduce the
students with verbal and nonverbal contexts of various natures.
The course will also describe and explain how the different types
of contexts can play their role in the accurate interpretations of
the linguistic communication.
Course Type: Elective
(Compulsory/Core/
Elective)
Pre-requisites General understanding of the linguistic structures of poems,
plays and prose.
Goals  The course aims at introducing the students with the
current approaches and methods of analysis in
Pragmatics.
 The course also aims to enable students to apply the
theories & concepts in Pragmatics for the analysis of the
texts drawn from different settings. .
Text/Course Books Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Additional Readings 1. Grundy, P (2008) Doing Pragmatics, 3rd edn, London:

Hodder Education.
2. Hofmann, Th R (1993) Realms of Meaning: An
Introduction to Semantics, London and New York:
Longman.
3. Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (2003) Metaphors We Live
By, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
4. Thomas, J (1995) Meaning in Interaction: An
Introduction to Pragmatics, Harlow, Essex: Longman.
5. Allott, N. (2010). Key terms in pragmatics. London:
Continuum.
Lectures 32 sessions of 45 minutes each

Attendance Policy A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be

eligible to take the final examination.The students with less than

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 70% of the attendance in a course shall be given the grade SA
(Short Attendance) in such a course and shall not be allowed to
take its End Term Exams and will have to reappear in the course
to get the required attendance to be eligible to sit in the exam
when the course is offered the next time.
Grading The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following
percentage:
 Mid Term 25%
Presentation 5%
Term Paper 10%
Quiz 10%
Final term 50%
Session Schedule
Sessions/ Topics Suggested Readings
Lectures
1&2 Definitions and Background Chapter # 1 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
 Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
 Regularity
 The Pragmatics Wastebasket
3&4 Deixis and Distance Chapter # 2 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
 Person Deixis
 Spatial Deixsis
 Temporal Deixis
 Deixis and Grammar
5&6 Reference & Inference Chapter # 3 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
 Referential and Attributive Uses
 Names and Referents
 The Role of Co-text
 Anaphoric Reference
7&8 Presupposition & Entailment Chapter # 4 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
 Presupposition
 Types of Presupposition
 The Projection Problem
 Ordered Entailments
9 & 10 Cooperation and Implicature Chapter # 4 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
The Cooperative Principle, Hedges,
Conversational Implicature, Generalized
Conversational Implicatures, Scalar
Implicatures

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11 & 12 Cooperation and Implicature Chapter # 5 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
Particularized Conversational Implicatures,
Properties of Conversational Implicatures,
Conventional Implicatures
13 & 14 Revision & Midterm
15 & 16 Speech Acts and Events Chapter # 6 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
Speech Acts, IFIDs, Felicity Conditions
The Performative Hypothesis

17 & 18 Speech Acts and Events Chapter # 6 of the Textbook

Pragmatics by George Yule
Speech Act Classification
Direct and Indirect Speech Acts
Speech Events
19 & 20 Politeness and Interaction Chapter # 7 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
Politeness, Face Wants, Negative & Positive
Face
21 & 22 Politeness and Interaction Chapter # 7 of the Textbook
Self & Other: Say Nothing, Say Something: Pragmatics by George Yule
Off and On Record, Positive and Negative
Politeness, Strategies, Pre-sequence
23 & 24 Assignment & Discussion
25 & 26 Conversation & Preference Structure Chapter # 8 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
Conversation Analysis, Pauses, Overlaps
and Backchannels, Conversational Style,
Adjacency Pairs, Preference Structure
27 & 28 Discourse and Culture Chapter # 9 of the Textbook
Pragmatics by George Yule
Discourse Analysis, Coherence,
Background Knowledge, Cultural
Schemata, Cross-cultural Pragmatics
29 & 30 Presentations
31 & 32 Revision