Sixth Semester

This semester focuses on teaching pragmatics to third-year students. The course covers key concepts such as context and its types, invisible versus visible meaning, deixis (definition and types), and reference—including anaphora, cataphora, and inference. Attention is also given to presuppositions, implicatures, speech acts and their classifications, rules of conversation, and relevance theory.

The course adopts a student-centered approach. While topics are introduced and explained by the instructor, students actively engage with them through discussions, assignments, and collaborative activities both during lessons and outside of class. To encourage cooperation and peer learning, students are regularly divided into groups of four to five members.

Classroom activities are designed to foster interaction and deepen understanding of pragmatic concepts. Quizzes are administered based on the completion of topics within lessons, ensuring continuous assessment. In addition, students will be assigned semester-long presentation topics, allowing them to explore specific areas of pragmatics in greater depth and demonstrate their learning through research and group presentations.