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Performative Pragmatics
Sample syllabus for freshman writing course
Two class meetings per week
Text: Douglas Robinson, Performative Pragmatics
Syllabus
Week
1
- Introduction
- Ch.
1 Metaphors of Language, discussion
Week
2
- Writing (as drama
and "mechanics"), Ch. 1 exercises
- Ch.
3 Performatives, discussion
Week
3
- Writing (as performative),
Ch. 3 exercises
- Ch. 4 Types
of Speech Act, discussion
Week
4
- First draft of first
paper due; peer review
- Final
draft of first paper due; Ch. 4 exercises
Week
5
- Go over first paper;
Ch. 5 Creating Context, discussion
- Ch.
5 exercises
Week 6
- Ch.
6 Taking Turns, discussion
- Writing
(as creating context), Ch. 6 exercises
Week
7
- First draft of second
paper due; peer review
- Ch.
7-8 Flouting/Violating/Infringing Maxims, discussion; final draft of 1st paper
due
Week 8
- Go
over second paper; Ch. 7-8 exercises
- Writing
(as implicature)
Week
9
- Ch. 9 Divergent Maxims
- Writing
(as addressing an audience); Ch. 9 exercises
Week
10
- First draft of third
paper due; peer review
- Ch.
10 Conversational Invocature, discussion; final draft of first paper due
Week
11
- Go over third paper
- Writing
(as invocature); Ch. 10 exercises
Week
12
- Ch. 11 Embodied
Language
- Writing (as body
language); Ch. 11 exercises
Week
13
- Ch. 12 Politeness
and Face, discussion
- Writing
(as protecting your reader's face); Ch. 12 exercises
Week
14
- First draft of fourth
paper due; peer review
- Final
draft of fourth paper due; start movie
Week
15
- Go over fourth paper;
finish movie
- Wrap-up
Requirements: two drafts each of four 3-page papers
