This course aims to offer an overview of the main topics of pragmatic 
<br>studies and familiarize students with the basic methodology for pragmatic 
<br>research and analysis through lectures by the instructor and students' 
<br>participation in class activities and individual (or group) research 
<br>project. Topics to be covered in the semester include speech acts, 
<br>conversational implicature, theories of politeness, deixis, 
<br>presupposition, etc.
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<br>Tentative Schedule:
<br>Week 01 Introduction and Orientation
<br>Week 02 What is Pragmatics?/ Why pragmatics? Reading: 語用學的發展與展望
<br>Week 03 Rules of conversation/ Reading: 漢語研究中的語用面向
<br>Week 04 Speech Acts/ Presupposition
<br>Week 05 Reading: Two types of Conventions in Indirect Speech acts
<br>Week 06 Reading: 語意與語用的互動
<br>Week 07 Reading: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study on American English and Mandarin 
<br>        Refusal Strategies
<br>Week 08 Reading: Functions of You Know in Women's and Men's Speech 
<br>Week 09 Theories of Politeness
<br>Week 10 Reading: Perspectives on Politeness
<br>Week 11 Reading: Politeness Phenomena in Modern Chinese
<br>Week 12 Reading: What a lovely tie! Compliments and Positive Politeness Strategies
<br>Week 13 Reading: Sorry! Apologies and Negative Politeness Strategies	
<br>Week 14 me<x>taphors/ Reading: 譬喻與華語研究及教學
<br>Week 15 Reading: Mapping in Thought and Language as Evidenced in Chinese
<br>Week 16 Project Oral Presentation
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<br>Evaluation:
<br>Class participation 25%
<br>Oral Presentation   35%
<br>Final Project       40%
<br>(Include project proposal, project oral presentation, and written project)
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<br>Handouts for discussions and other resources and supplementary materials 
<br>will be given to students in class.