Week 

Topic 

Content  

Teaching Activities 

Homework1 

1 

(9/1) 

Course Overview 

Course introduction, The language teaching and pragmatics interface 

Lecture & Discuss 

2 

(9/8) 

Speech Act 

Part I: Requests 

Lecture & Discuss 

3  

(9/15) 

Speech Act 

Part II: Indirect Acts 

Lecture & Discuss 

4 

(9/22) 

Speech Act 

Part III: Responding Acts 

Lecture & Discuss 

Speech Act assessment 

5 

(9/29) 

教師節補假 

6 

(10/6) 

中秋節放假 

7 

(10/13) 

Speech Act 

Homework discussion 

Paper presentation 

8 

(10/20) 

Presentation 

Speech act & its application 

9 

(10/27) 

Cooperative Principle 

Gricean pragmatics as rational cooperation 

Lecture & Discuss 

10 

(11/3) 

Implicatures 

Conversational implicatures 

Lecture & Discuss 

11 

(11/10) 

Presupposition 

Inference and presuppoistion  

Lecture & Discuss 

12 

(11/17) 

Imformation packaging 

Newness, known-ness, definiteness 

Lecture & Discuss 

Paper presentation 

13 

(11/24) 

Presentation 

CP, implicature, information packaging & its application 

14 

(12/1) 

Politeness 

Theories of politeness 

Lecture & Discuss 

15 

(12/8) 

Politeness 

Universality of politeness, social pragmatics and power 

Lecture & Discuss 

Paper presentation 

16 

(12/15) 

Presentation 

Politeness & its application 

Term Paper Due