Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a course that offers master 2 students specialized in language and culture basic foundational knowledge of pragmatics. Students will be exposed to key concepts and topics that will help them understand language in context. This course provides historical, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological points that can help foster students' understanding of the principles that govern contextualized language use. It sets out to give structure to pragmatics through its organization and choice of topics which cover enough length, depth, and scope. Since this subject is a semester-long, the content presented in the fifteen lectures introduces students to basic concepts of pragmatics – such as implicature, speech acts, presupposition, and deixis. Along with this theoretical content, students' skills of analysis and critical thinking will be enhanced through practical activities such as group discussions, utterance analysis (English, Arab, French), and reading pragmatics related research studies.