Postgraduate Course: Pragmatics (MSc) (LASC11097)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The study of Pragmatics focuses on language meaning in context. In this course we discuss a range of pragmatic phenomena from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. |
| Course description |
The course is about how language acquires meaning in context. In many situations, what speakers mean goes beyond what they explicitly say. This course discusses formal models which have been proposed for explaining how these meanings are conveyed between cooperative interlocutors. Specific topics include presuppositions and implicatures, which often arise within the sentence, as well as higher level discourse phenomena such as coreference and coherence. We examine these using both naturally occurring data and the results of experimental investigation.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 30 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 27,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Homework: 50%, 1,500 words
Final assignment: 50%, 2,000 words |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided on an exercise involving the application of course concepts to linguistic data, around the middle of term. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- understand and discuss important concepts in pragmatics
- engage critically with recent theoretical and experimental literature
- identify theory-critical naturally occurring data and explain their importance to pragmatics
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Engage critically with primary research literature
Compose an argument supported by experimental evidence |
| Keywords | pragmatics,meaning,context |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Hannah Rohde
Tel: (0131 6)50 6802
Email: Hannah.Rohde@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sasha Wood
Tel:
Email: swood310@ed.ac.uk |
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