Key information
- Faculty
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Teaching department
- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
- Credit value
- 15
- Restrictions
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Students should have completed PLIN00011: Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics B or equivalent as a minimum. Ideally students should have passed PLIN0010 Intermediate Pragmatics or equivalent before this module. It cannot be taken by second year undergraduate linguistics students.
- Timetable
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Alternative credit options
There are no alternative credit options available for this module.
Module Content
In this module, we consider a growing body of work in linguistics and philosophy of language which is able to apply tools from formal, analytic pragmatics to a wider range of real-world phenomena than in standard pragmatics research. Our topics drawn from the study of rhetoric and political discourse; formality and politeness; social indexing and identity.
Teaching Delivery
The module is taught by 1 x 2 hr lecture and 1 x 1 hr tutorial per week.
Indicative Topics
Indicative lecture topics are based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes.
Specific topics will be drawn from a selection that includes: slurs and dog whistles, question begging and deniability, the use of honorifics, and the dialectic between broader social/cultural forces and utterance form (social indexing).
Module Aims and/or Objectives
The aim will be to evaluate how well highly developed insights about the nature of context and levels of meaning in formal pragmatics can be used as the basis for accounts of these phenomena.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Intended teaching term:
Term 1 听听听
Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)
Teaching and assessment
- Mode of study
- In person
- Methods of assessment
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100%
Coursework
- Mark scheme
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Numeric Marks
Other information
- Number of students on module in previous year
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0
- Module leader
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Professor Richard Breheny
- Who to contact for more information
- pals.lingteachingoffice@ucl.ac.uk
Intended teaching term:
Term 1 听听听
Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 6)
Teaching and assessment
- Mode of study
- In person
- Methods of assessment
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100%
Coursework
- Mark scheme
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Numeric Marks
Other information
- Number of students on module in previous year
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29
- Module leader
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Professor Richard Breheny
- Who to contact for more information
- pals.lingteachingoffice@ucl.ac.uk
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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