Course overview
How do we get from sounds, words and grammar to meaning? This course brings a linguistic lens to the form-function relationship in human language, drawing on key concepts and methods of analysis in pragmatics to explore social views of meaning. Learners build foundational knowledge and skills in identifying and analysing relationships between language, context and social meaning. Through an intercultural approach, learners investigate and reflect on ways that language is used to achieve social purposes that are central to participation, roles, and relationships, within and across languages.
- Pragmatics: Saying Is Doing
- Sociopragmatics: Meaning And The Social
- Pragmatics In Action: Meaning And Intercultural Realities
Course learning outcomes
- Identify types of form-function-meaning relationships in human language
- Collaborate with peers to analyse authentic examples of language use in context
- Compare and discuss ways that meaning is accomplished in intercultural interactions
- Reflect on ways that language choices influence perceptions of participation, roles, and relationships
Degree list
The following degrees include this course