Università Roma Tre

- The theory of speech acts. Locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary function.
- The Principle of Cooperation and the theory of implicatures; the Theory of Relevance.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context, ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and anaphora.
- Face and Courtesy
- Culture and language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: presupposition of existence, presupposition of truth.
- Pragmatic presuppositions. Conditions of happiness.
- Notes on the informative structure of the statement: given and new, theme and rheme, foreground and background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.