SPAN 449 Pragmatics and Language Learning (3)

The study of Pragmatics from theoretical and practical points of view. Topics include: relationship between language use and socio-cultural contexts, meaning, deictic expressions, oral and written discourse, speech, acts, conversational norms, linguistic politeness, pragmatic variation in Spanish, pragmatic contrasts between English and Spanish, and the learning of second language pragmatics.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 381
Course Frequency: Occasional