This course concentrates on the basic features of Pragmatics as one of
the fields of Linguistics and the relation between Pragmatics and Language Teaching.
It deals with how language is used as a means of communication. The
course is based on the topics of Maxims of Conversation: Quality, Quantity, Relation
and Manner as well as the Speech Acts: Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act, Perlocutionary
Act and Maxims of Politeness. This course also deals with the application
pragmatic knowledge, teaches how to make use of these in ELT classroom and
focuses on the preparation of materials for the teaching of utterances in
appropriate contexts.