Speech Act Theory: Austin & Searle
An in-depth exploration of how language performs actions. Covers locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, along with felicity conditions.
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Grice's Cooperative Principle & Maxims
How speakers implicitly communicate meaning beyond literal statements. Analysis of Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner in everyday conversation.
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Deixis: Person, Place, and Time in Context
Understanding how words like "here", "now", and "I" anchor meaning to specific spatiotemporal and social contexts across languages.
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Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory
Examining face-threatening acts and the strategic use of positive/negative politeness to navigate social hierarchies and cultural norms.
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Relevance Theory: Sperber & Wilson
A cognitive approach to pragmatics that posits human communication is driven by the optimization of cognitive effects versus processing effort.
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Presupposition Triggers & Projection
How background assumptions are embedded in sentences and how they interact with negation, questions, and logical operators.
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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
How cultural scripts shape pragmatic competence. Analysis of indirectness, high/low context communication, and intercultural miscommunication.
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Pragmatics in Modern AI Systems
Challenges and breakthroughs in teaching LLMs contextual reasoning, intent recognition, and pragmatic competence in human-AI dialogue.
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Metapragmatic Awareness in Language Learning
How explicit instruction in pragmatic norms improves L2 speakers' communicative effectiveness and reduces pragmatic failure.