ASIAN 503 A: Seminar in Asian Linguistics

Days & Location: MW, 3:30-5:20, in THO 231
This graduate seminar provides an opportunity to explore approaches to, and research about, the development of L2 pragmatic competence in naturalistic, classroom, and online settings. Students will each conduct their own original exploratory study in this area. The schedule is designed collaboratively between the students and professor, with assigned readings and student-selected "free-choice" readings  based on each student's research and teaching interests.

Textbooks (available at the bookstore):

1. Taguchi, Naoko & Roever, Carsten (2017). Second Language Pragmatics. Oxford.
2. Searle, John. Speech Acts: An Essay in the philosophy of Language. Cambridge.
3. Other readings distributed on CANVAS.

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