1. COURSE OUTLINE
Subject : Pragmatics Credit : 2 Credits
Program : English Department/fkip Status : Compulsory
Semester : 6 Advisor : Prof.Dr.Susilo, M.Pd.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to familiarize the students with basic concept of how context
contributes to meaning in studying language use. In particular, this course is intended to
provide the students with the concept of analyzing what people mean, how context
determines interpretation of what people mean, how listeners make interpretation, and how
closeness determines how much need to be said in the process of human communication. The
topics in this course include speech act theory, presupposition, implicature (Cooperative
Principles), deixis, and politeness theories.
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the course the students are able to:
1, Identify basic concepts of pragmatics as stated in the topics
2, Analyze pragmatic phenomena found in their daily routines as basic steps for making
researches on pragmatics.
METHODS OF TEACHING:
The teaching activities will include lecturing, peer discussion, analyzing cases, and
student presentation. The evaluation will be MORE process-oriented.
REFERENCES:
1, Leech, Geoffrey. 1996. Principles of Pragmatics. New York: Longman Group
Liminted
2, Grundy, Peter. 2008. Doing Pragmatics. Euston Road, London: Hooder Education
MATERIALS

2. WEEK TOPICS DURATION
1 Definition of pragmatics 150 minutes
2 Context analysis in linguistics (Systemic
Functional Linguistics)
150 minutes
3 Speech Act Theory (JL Austin’s Theory) 150 minutes
4 Cooperative Principle (Grice’s Theory) and
implicature (part 1)
150 minutes
5 Cooperative Principle (Grice’s Theory) and
implicature (part 2)
150 minutes
6 Language Politeness (theories of politeness)
7 Case analysis on pragmatic phenomena in daily
routines
150 minutes
8 Mid-test 150 minutes
9 Presupposition 150 minutes
10 Deixis 150 minutes
11 Ethnography of communication 150 minutes
12 Methodological Concern and research topics on
Pragmatics: Peer Discussion and lecturer’s
Feedback
150 minutes
13 Students’s Presentation on their selected topics 150 minutes
14 Students’s Presentation on their selected topics 150 minutes
15 Students’s Presentation on their selected topics 150 minutes
16 Final Test 150 minutes