
- UCAS course code
- VR11
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Course unit details:
Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction
Unit code | LELA20291 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 2 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
Offered by | Linguistics & English Language |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
Pre/co-requisites
Unit title | Unit code | Requirement type | Description |
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French Language 1 | FREN51011 | Pre-Requisite | Compulsory |
Study of Meaning | LELA10332 | Pre-Requisite | Compulsory |
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
Aims
- 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.
Knowledge and understanding
- 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.
Intellectual skills
- Analytical skills
- Argumentation skills
- Abstract thinking skills
Practical skills
- Data collection skills
- Data analysis skills
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Communication skills
- Team-working skills
- Time-management skills
- Enhanced intercultural awareness
Assessment methods
Exam | 80% |
Satisfactory completion of weekly written, group assignments for the seminars
| 10% |
Satisfactory completion of weekly assigned work for the lectures
| 10% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or summative |
Oral and written feedback on exam performance | Formative and summative |
Written feedback on participation-related submissions and seminar assignments | Formative and summative |
Oral feedback on in-class contributions, participation related submissions, and seminar assingments | Formative and summative |
Recommended reading
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Assessment written exam | 3 |
eAssessment | 20 |
Lectures | 16.5 |
Seminars | 16.5 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 144 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Maj-Britt Hansen | Unit coordinator |