課程大綱 Syllabus |
學生學習目標 Learning Objectives |
單元學習活動 Learning Activities |
學習成效評量 Evaluation |
備註 Notes |
序 No. | 單元主題 Unit topic |
內容綱要 Content summary |
1 | Week 1 Introduction |
(1) Kraft and Geluykens. 2007. Defining cross-cultural and interlanguage
pragmatics. In Kraft and Geluykens (eds.), 3-20.
(2) Grundy, Peter. 1995. Doing Pragmatics, Chapter 1: Using and
understanding language. London: Edward Arnold. |
To get a whole picture of the course. |
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(3) Marmaridou. 2000. Pragmatic meaning and cognition. Ch. 1
(4) Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Chapter 1:
Introduction. Mouton de Gruyter.
(5) Gass. 1996. Introduction. In Gass & Neu (eds.), 1-17. |
2 | Methodological issues |
(1) Cohen, Andrew. 1996. Investigating the production of speech act sets. In
Gass and Neu, 21-43.
(2) Houck, Noel, and Gass, Susan M. 1996. Non-native refusals: A
methodological perspective. In Gass and Neu, 45-64. |
To understand methodological issues related to the final project. |
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(3) Beebe, Leslie M., and Cummings Martha Clark. 1996. Natural speech
act data versus written questionnaire data. In Gass and Neu, 65-86.
(4) Geluykens. 2007. On Methodology in CCP. In Kraft & Geluykens (eds.),
21-72. |
3 | Reference/indexicality/Pronouns and addressing forms |
(1) Grundy, Peter. 1995. Doing Pragmatics. Chapter 2 Dexis: the relation of
language to its point of origin. Edward Arnold.
(2) Marmaridou. 2000. Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition. Ch. 3: Dexis.
John Benjamins. |
To know the use of addressing forms in social actions. |
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Biq, Yung-O. 1991. The Multiple Uses of the Second Personal
Pronoun ni in Conversational Mandarin. Journal of Pragmatics 16:307-321. |
4 | Politeness and face |
(1) Foley, William A. 1997. Anthropological Linguistics. Chapter 14:
Politeness, Face, and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. Blackwell Publishers. |
To know the politeness theory and the importance of \"face\" in cross-cultural environments. |
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Report the tentative topic of your final project. |
5 | Sequentiality in Interaction |
(1) Hua, Zhu, Li Wei and Qian Yuan. 2000. The sequential organization of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese. |
To know the sequentiality in social interactions, including gift offering and acceptance, and telephone opening. |
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6 | Conversational Practice and Pragmatic Failures |
Readings :
(1) Kim, Mary Shin. 2013. Answering questions about the unquestionable in Korean conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 57:138-157. |
To know different conversational practices in different cultures and to recognize what factors cause pragmatic failures. |
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7 | Initiating and Maintaining Solidarity (1): Initiating Interactions |
Mortensen, Kristian, and Hazel, Spencer. 2014. Moving into interaction---Social practices for initiating encounters at a helpdesk. Journal of Pragmatics 62:46-67. |
To know how social interactants initiate and maintain solidarity, with a partucular focus laid on greetings and initiating interactions. |
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8 | Initiating and Maintaining Solidarity (2): Humor |
(1) Xu, Zhen. 2014. Contextual dimensions in interactional humour: How humour is practiced in selected American and Chinese situation comedies. Journal of Pragmatics 60:24-35. |
To know how social interactants initate and maintain solidarity, with a particular focus laid on humor. |
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9 | mid-term assignment |
Summary of your research project: (i) thesis statement of your research question(s); (ii) methodology; (iii) literature review; and (iv) references |
Students have to turn in a summary of your research project, including (i) thesis statement of your research question(s); (ii) methodology; (iii) literature; and (iv) refereneces |
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10 | Initiating and Maintaining Solidarity (3): Compliments |
Nelson, Gayle L., Bakary, Waguida El, and Batal, Mahmoud Al. 1996.
Egyptian and American compliments. In Gass and Neu, 109-128. |
To know how social interactants maintain solidarity, with a particular focus laid on compliments and compliment-response strategiese. |
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11 | Face-threatening Acts (1): Requests |
Breuer, Anja, and Geluykens, Ronald. 2007. Variation in British and
American Requests. In Kraft and Geluykens, 107-126. |
To understand face-threatening acts, with a particular focus laid on requests. |
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12 | Face-threatening Acts (2): Complaints |
Murphy, Beth, and Neu, Joyce. 1996. My grade’s too low: The speech
act set of complaining. In Gass and Neu, 191-216. |
To undersatnd FTA, with a particular focus laid on complaints. |
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13 | Face-threatening Acts (3): Refusals |
Allamin, Hamid, and Naeimi, Amin. 2011. A cross-linguistic study of
refusals: An analysis of pragmatic competence development in Iranian EFL learners. Journal of Pragmatics 43:385-406. |
To understand FTA, with a particular focus laid on refusals. |
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14 | Gender |
Ogiermann, Eva. 2007. Gender-based Differences in English Apology
Realizations. In Kraft & Geluykens (eds.), 127-142. |
To understand how the factor of gender may cause a difference in some important cross-culture issues, including doing apologies, complaints, and so on. |
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15 | Sales Promotion |
Cheung, Ming. 2011. Sales promotion communication in Chinese and
English: A thematic analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 43:1061-1079. |
To know different strategies of sales promotion in different cultures. |
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16 | Final presentation (1) |
1. Students take turns to present their final projects.
2. Peer reviews. |
By presenting their final projects, students learn oral presentation skills. |
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presentation and critique (20%) |
17 | Final presentation (2) |
1. Take turns present final projects.
2. Peer reviews. |
To learn oral presentation skills. |
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contribution (20%) |
18 | Final exam |
Term paper of final project. |
to learn how to write an academic paper. |
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