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Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts

Author: Kent Bach, Robert Harnish

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Linguistic Communication, Speech Acts, Speech Act Schema, Literal Illocutionary Acts, Illocutionary Intentions, Illocutionary Acts.Conventional Illocutionary acts, Locutionary Acts, communication, Indirect Acts, illocutionary Standardization

Expression and Meaning

Author: John Searle

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: illocutionary acts, Indirect speech acts, fictional discourse, metaphor, literal meaning, Referential, attributive, Speech acts, recent linguistics

Language Its Structure and Use ,7th edition

Author: Edward Finegan

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: Language, language structure, phonetics, lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, language universals, language typology, language use, information structure, pragmatics, speech acts, speech conversation, language variation, language change, language development, language acquisition

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

Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity ,2nd edition

Author: Judith Butler

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI201

Topics: heterosexual matrix, subversive bodily acts, Feminism

Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics ,2nd edition

Author: Ruth Chadwick

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI203

Topics: Applied Ethics, abortion, accounting, business ethics, acts, omissions, addiction, adoption, advance directives, advertising, affirmative action, affordable housing, ageism, agricultural ethics, AIDS, altruism, economics, animal research, animal rights, Anthropocentrism, Archaeological Ethics, Aristotelian Ethics, Auditing Practices, arts, autonomy, benefit sharing, biobanks, Biocentrism, biodiversitybioethics, Bioinformatics, biopower, foucault, biotechnology, bioterrorism, border control, brain death, broadcast journalism, Buddhism, business ethics, capital punishment, casuistry, censorship, child abuse, Children’s Rights, Christian Ethics, citzenship, civil disobedience, climate change, clinical ethics, cloning, codes of ethics, collective guilt, communication ethics, Communitarianism, Community Consent, Complementary Medicine, information ethics, Computer Security, Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, Confucianism, conjoined twins, Conscientious Objection, Consequentialism, Deontology, consumer rights, Contractarian Ethics, Corporate Ethics, Reputation Management, Corporate Governance, Corporate Responsibility, cosmetic surgery, Cosmopolitanism

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

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

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

Anxiety disorders

Author: OIN Buhari

School: University of Ilorin

Department: Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health science

Course Code: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE600

Topics: fear, Abnormal fear, Anxiety, Phobia, panic, ICD, stress, neurotic disorder, GAD, Panic disorder, episodic paroxysmal anxiety, Panic attack, Phobic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, Compulsive acts, Stress disorders, PTSD, dissociative disorders, conversion disorders, Somatization disorders, briquet’s syndrome, Hypochondriasis, Pain disorder, Body dysmorphic disorder, Dysmorphophobia, Factitious disorder, Malingering

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