I. Course Description: The course aims at introducing the application of pragmatics in various discourse studies, including theories of leading pragmaticists, with an emphasis on researching speech acts, reference, politeness, face work, identity, corpus analysis and conversation analysis. Throughout the course, artificial intelligence will be used as a tool to assist students learning experience, including knowledge learning and practicing. II. Objectives: 1. To enable students to grasp basic theories and research methodology of pragmatics (Week 3, 4 and 13); to familiarize students with the status quo and development trends of pragmatics (Week 1 and 2); and to enable students to research pragmatics with the latest theories and approaches (Week 6-15). 2. To enable students to understand how AI technologies are reshaping pragmatic studies and human-computer communication; to evaluate and improve AI-generated content for cultural sensitivity and pragmatic appropriateness; to foster innovative thinking that combines pragmatic knowledge with technological applications while maintaining ethical considerations in AI development. 3. To enable students to understand President Xi Jinping’s pearls of wisdom quotes of cyberspace governance and to cultivate students' internet pragmatic competence (Week 6, 8, 12, 13 and 15). 4. To strengthen students' cultural confidence and build up their sense of national pride (week 15 and 16). 5. To help students tell the stories of China's economic development on social media platforms (Week 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12). 6. To cultivate students’ awareness of political participation, political interest and political literacy and to fulfill the "student-centered, output-oriented and constant improving" educational concept (Week 1-16).