LING 207Pragmatic Theory
Linguistics · 2 or 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to formal pragmatic theory. Topics include speech act theory, imperatives, and other illocutionary moods; at-issue/not-at-issue distinction and other projective content; Gricean implicature, conversational implicature, and local implicature; and formal treatments of discourse, including game-theoretic pragmatics.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 200C, 201C.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.