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The Handbook of Pragmatics

Author: Laurence Horn, Gregory Ward

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: Pragmatics, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, reference, deixis, discourse structure, information structure, non-canonical syntax, discourse markers, discourse coherence, anaphora, empathy, argument structure, semantics, lexicon, intonation, historical pragmatics, language acquisition, computational linguistics, cognitive pragmatics

An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics

Author: Patrick Griffiths

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN101

Topics: English Semantics, English Pragmatics, adjective, Noun vocabulary, verbs, Figurative language, tense, aspect, pragmatics, semantics

Meaning in Interaction An Introduction to Pragmatics

Author: Jenny Thomas

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Utterance meaning, meaning, speech acts, Conversational implicature, indirectness, approaches to pragmatics, construction of meaning

When Voices Clash A Study in Literary Pragmatics

Author: Jacob Mey

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Literary Pragmatics, language question, contextual coercion, deixis, personal prnouns, anaphora, true preterits, speakability, voice, voice managment, perspectives, dialogic perspective, reader perspective, pragmatic perspective, speakable text

Pragmatics

Author: George Yule

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Deixis, reference, inference, presupposition, entailment, cooperation, implicature, speech acts, speech events, politeness, interaction, conversation, preference structure, discourse, culture

Principles of Pragmatics

Author: Geoffrey Leech

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, rhetorics, motivation, formalism, functionalism, cooperative principle, tact maxim, interpersonal rhetoric, communicative verb, performative, speech-act verbs

Understanding Utterances An Introduction to Pragmatics

Author: Diane Blakemore

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Utterances, relevance, linguistics, literature, explicature, implicature

Philosophy of Language ,3rd edition

Author: William Lycan

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI208

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Definite Descriptions, Description Theory, Referential Theory, Proper Names, Direct Reference, Causal–Historical Theory, Psychological Theories, Grice’s Program, Verificationism, Truth-Condition Theories, Semantic Pragmatics, pragmatics, Speech Acts, Illocutionary Force, Implicative Relations, Expressive Language, metaphor

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 2nd edition

Author: Douglas Brown

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ARA284

Topics: Language, Learning, Teaching, First Language Acquisition, Dispelling Myths, Hemispheric Lateralization, Anthropological Evidence, Human Learning, Individual Differences, Ambiguity Tolerance, Left-Brain dominance, Right-Brain Dominance, Autonomy, Awareness, Compensatory Strategies, Self-Esteem, Attribution Theory, Self-Efficacy, Motivation, Language, Culture, Identity, Teaching Intercultural Competence, Communicative Competence speech acts, Language Functions, Interactional Competence, discourse analysis, Written Discourse, Intercultural Rhetoric, Pragmatics, Sociopragmatics, Pragmalinguistics, Corpus Analysis, Nonverbal Communication, Kinesics, Interlanguage, Learner Language, learner errors, error Treatment

English Linguistics Essentials, 2nd edition

Author: Bernd Kortmann

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: English Linguistics, Linguistics, phonetics, speech organs, transcription, phonology, morphology, morpheme, Morphophonemics, Inflectional morphology, grammar, syntax, English verb phrase, Contrastive Linguistics, Structural semantics, Cognitive semantics, semantics, Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, deixis, Feminist linguistics, language change

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