Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

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Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis involve the study of language in its contexts of use. Pragmatics focuses on the effects of context on meaning, and Discourse Analysis studies written and spoken language in relation to its social context.

 

 

Personnel

Sarah E. Blackwell

Professor

Pragmatics, Semantics, Discourse analysis, Cognitive and functional linguistics, Hispanic linguistics

Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor

Semantics, Pragmatics, Romance languages, Tenetehára

Ruth Harman

Associate Professor, Dept. of Language and Literacy Education

Critical discourse analysis, Systemic functional linguistics

Paula Mellom

Senior Research Scientist, The MERIT Center

Second language acquisition, Discourse analysis

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