2020_21
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A 
english 
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language (2015)
 Subjects
  PRAGMATICS IN THE EL CLASSROOM
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Week 1: 1) Module overview. 2) What is pragmatics?
Week 2: 1) Conversational implicatures. 2) Scalar implicatures.
Week 3: 1) Deixis, presupposition, metaphor.
Week 4: 1) Speech acts.
Week 5: 1) Conversational structure.
Week 6: 1) Politeness. 2) Positive and negative face.
Week 7: 1) Experimental pragmatics and first language acquisition.
Week 8: 1) Can semantics be dissociated from pragmatics? 2) Grammatical illusions as semantico-pragmatic constructs.
Week 9: 1) Pragmatics in the EFL classroom.
Week 10: 1) Oral presentations. 2) Q&A sessions and feedback for the final written assignment.
Week 11: 1) Oral presentations. 2) A hands-on approach to pragmatics: Analyzing advertisements, movies, and humor.