Pragmatics of Language

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This seminar will survey research and theory in pragmatics and psycholinguistics concerning the communicative functions of language. Topics include speech acts (e.g., promises, requests, commands), implicatures, perspective and alignment, common ground, and coordinating devices such as discourse markers (e.g., well, you know), pause fillers (uh, um), and acknowledgments and backchannels (e.g., okay, mhm, right).