SYLLABUS

A. General Information
Institution : Persada Bunda
Faculty : STIBA
Department : English Language & Literature (S1)
Semester : Oct 2019 – Jan 2020
Subject : Pragmatics
Code : MKB 77202
Credit : 2 (two)
Lecturer : Rezqa Gusrizal, S.Pd, M.Pd

B. Course Description
This course provides the students in understanding the basic concept of pragmatics and
its properties and introduces the students to the problem areas in the philosophy of
language which are relevant with linguistics. It also shows the students about the various
phenomena of language in pragmatics.

C. Objectives
At the end of the course, the students:
1. The students are able to describe the theories of pragmatics in breaking up the implied
meaning in the both of spoken and written texts.
2. The students are able to apply and use the theories of pragmatics in the both of spoken and
written texts.

D. References
1. Grundy, Peter. 2008. Doing Pragmatics. London:Routledge
2. Mey, L. Jacob. 2001. Pragmatics an Introduction. United States: Blackwell Publishing
3. Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. New York: Oxford University Press
E. Evaluation
1.Absent 10%
2.Assignment (Personal assignment and Group assignment) 15%
3.Participation (Presenter and Audiences in Discussion Section) 15%
4.Mid Term Test 25%
5.Final Term Test
- Final Project 20%
- Test 15%
F. Basic Course Outline
100%
Week Topics References
1 Introduction to the course:1:1-4
Pragmatics and the differences 2:3:14
pragmatics VS semantics 3:1
2 Introduction of Pragmatics 1:1-23
2: 3:14
3: 3-63
3 Deixis and distance 1: 8 – 12
22 - 41
2: 56 – 60
3: 9-15
4 Reference and inference 2: 52- 56
3 : 17 – 22
5 Presupposition and entailment 1: 48 - 63
2: 27 - 29
3 : 25-33
6 Cooperation and implicature 1: 92 - 125
2:45 – 52
3: 35-45
7 Speech act and events 1: 71 – 87
2:47 – 56
3: 92 - 124
8 Politeness and interaction 1: 186-206
3: 59 – 67
9 MID TERM TEST
10 Conversation and preference 2:134-162
structure 3: 71 -78
11 Metapragmatics 1: 155-174
2: 173-198
12 Literary pragmatics 2: 236-252
13 Discourse and Culture 2: 262-275
3: 83-87
14 Empirical and interactive 1: 211-224
pragmatics, talk-in-interaction and 228-243
intercultural pragmatics
15 Social aspects of pragmatics 2: 289-317
16 FINAL TERM TEST