Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
How do we really mean what we say—and how can we teach that to language learners? This course explores the intricate relationship between context and meaning in communication, focusing on how pragmatic concepts can be applied to second language acquisition (SLA) and English language teaching. Students will explore key topics such as speech acts, implicature, presupposition, Grice' s Cooperative Principle, politeness strategies, and information packaging (e.g., topic-focus structure and given-new distinctions). Blending theory with practice, the course equips future language educators with the tools to recognize and teach the often-unspoken rules of real-world language use in diverse classroom settings.
能力項目說明
Upon semester completion, students will:
explain key concepts in pragmatics, such as speech acts, implicature, presupposition, politeness, and the Cooperative Principle
identify how meaning is shaped by context in communication
recognize common pragmatic challenges faced by second language learners
design and adapt classroom strategies to teach pragmatic features in EFL contexts
reflect on the role of pragmatics in real-life language use and classroom interaction
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Week |
Topic |
Content |
Teaching Activities |
Homework1 |
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1 |
Course Overview |
Course introduction, The language teaching and pragmatics interface |
Lecture & Discuss |
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2 (9/8) |
Speech Act |
Part I: Requests |
Lecture & Discuss |
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3 (9/15) |
Speech Act |
Part II: Indirect Acts |
Lecture & Discuss |
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4 (9/22) |
Speech Act |
Part III: Responding Acts |
Lecture & Discuss |
Speech Act assessment |
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5 (9/29) |
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教師節補假
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6 (10/6) |
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中秋節放假
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7 (10/13) |
Speech Act |
Homework discussion |
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Paper presentation |
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8 (10/20) |
Presentation |
Speech act & its application |
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9 (10/27) |
Cooperative Principle |
Gricean pragmatics as rational cooperation |
Lecture & Discuss |
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10 (11/3) |
Implicatures |
Conversational implicatures |
Lecture & Discuss |
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11 (11/10) |
Presupposition |
Inference and presuppoistion |
Lecture & Discuss |
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12 |
Imformation packaging |
Newness, known-ness, definiteness |
Lecture & Discuss
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Paper presentation |
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13 (11/24) |
Presentation |
CP, implicature, information packaging & its application |
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14 (12/1) |
Politeness |
Theories of politeness |
Lecture & Discuss
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15 (12/8) |
Politeness |
Universality of politeness, social pragmatics and power |
Lecture & Discuss |
Paper presentation |
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16 (12/15) |
Presentation |
Politeness & its application Term Paper Due |
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In-class participation: 10%
Homework: 15%
Paper presentations: 60% (20% for each presentation)
Term Paper: 15%
Attardo, S., & Pickering, L. (2021). Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394259793
Tatsuki, D. H., & Houck, N. R. (2010). Pragmatics: Teaching speech acts. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB04247447