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Performative Pragmatics
Sample Syllabus for Upper-Division Undergraduate Pragmatics Class
(Seminar-style, one class meeting per week)
Text: Douglas Robinson, Performative Pragmatics
Syllabus
Week
1. Introduction
Week 2. Part I Introduction
Week 3. Ch. 3-4 Performatives,
Types of Speech Act
Week 4. Ch. 5 Creating Context
Week 5. Ch. 6 Taking
Turns
Week 6. First exam
Week 7. Ch. 7-8 Flouting/Violating/Infringing Maxims
Week
8. Ch. 9 Divergent Maxims
Week 9. Ch. 10 Conversational Invocature
Week
10. Ch. 11 Embodied Language
Week 11. Ch. 12 Politeness and Face
Week 12.
Second exam
Week 13. Presentations
Week 14. Presentations
Week 15. Presentations
Requirements: two exams, presentation, 10-page research paper
