BA History and French

Pre-requisites may be waived with the convenor's permission, please contact your subject administartor to seek this permission if required. 

Medium of language:

For Linguistics and English Language students: English, with occasional examples from other languages

For French Studies students: English and French, with occasional examples from other languages

• The distribution of labor between the linguistic code and features of the context.
• The typology of contextually generated meanings.
• The specific principles that can be hypothesized to underlie different types of contextually generated meaning.
• The ways in which the structure of verbal interaction itself can create meanings.

• identify and analyze the empirical phenomena that are central to pragmatics, including recurrent patterns in verbal interaction;
• analyze new data representing language use in context applying appropriate methodologies, as well as a precisely defined metalinguistic and metadiscursive vocabulary;
• understand the main theoretical approaches to the different subfields of pragmatics, and the relations that obtain between those approaches;
• reflect critically on their own communicative practice and that of others.

• Analytical skills
• Argumentation skills
• Abstract thinking skills

• Data collection skills
• Data analysis skills

• Communication skills
• Team-working skills
• Time-management skills
• Enhanced intercultural awareness