Crash Course Linguistics

Pragmatics

We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and yet we’re still pretty good at understanding each other. It's because we use context and meaning to figure out what's going on. We cover the four main assumptions we make about context in language, also known as Grice’s Maxims, and different times of conversational styles.

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Writing Systems

We learn about orthographies, the different components that make up a writing system.

Computational Linguistics

We learn about the process of programming computers to process human language.

World Languages

We explore factors to learn about world languages and linguistic diversity.

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