Dr. Chan Somnoble, Dr. Denis Paillard
Year I, Semester II
The field of formal structural linguistics excludes the speaker from the framework of linguistic studies. Since the 1960s, however, researchers have been reintroducing the speaker as a subject of linguistic inquiry. This class introduces students to those aspects of language research which pay attention to the role of the speaker in language, including pragmatics, elocution, presuppositions, speech connectors, conversational rules, communication and conversational analysis, and semantics. Students also focus on enunciation, including enunciation of pronouns and deixis, the functioning of utterances, sentences and statements, markers and operations, semantics and variations of linguistic units, and assertions, questions, interjections and exclamations.