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Lecturer(s)
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Janebová Markéta, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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TOPIC 1: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS. §§§ Akmajian, Adrian, et al. 2001. ?Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use and Communication.? In Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Read pp. 361?372. §§§ Birner, Betty J. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics. Wiley-Blackwell. Read pp. 1-9. §§§ TOPIC 2: REFERENCE, INFERENCE AND DEIXIS. §§§ Saeed, John I. 2016. Semantics. Wiley Blackwell. Read Chapter 2-2.3: 22-30. §§§ Birner, Betty J. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics. Wiley Blackwell. Read part of Chapter 4: 110-121. TOPIC 3: PRESUPPOSITION AND ENTAILMENT. §§§ Saeed, John I. 2016. Semantics. Wiley Blackwell. Read Chapters 4.4-4.5: 94-105. TOPIC 4: COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE. IMPLICATURE. §§§ Grice, H. P. 1975. ?Logic and Conversation.? In Syntax and Semantics, edited by P. Cole and J.L. Morgan. Vol. III: Speech Acts, 41-58. New York: Academic Press. TOPIC 5: GRICE REVISITED: RELEVANCE THEORY AND NEO-GRICEANS. §§§ Wilson, Deirdre, and Dan Sperber. 1994. ?Outline of relevance theory.? Links & Letters 1, 85-106. TOPIC 6: EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS. §§§ Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste, and Dan Sperber. 2012. ?Testing the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance.? In Meaning and Relevance, edited by Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber, 279-306. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Focus on pp. 279-283, 294-306. TOPIC 7: LANGUAGE AS ACTION. SPEECH ACTS. INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS AND POLITENESS. §§§ Birner, Betty J. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics. Wiley Blackwell. Chapter 6: 175-200. TOPIC 8: PRINCIPLE OF POLITENESS: POLITENESS ACCORDING TO BROWN AND LEVINSON. §§§ Leech. Geoffrey. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman. (Chapter 6:-131-139). §§§ Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 7: 59-70). TOPIC 9: COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE VS POLITENESS PRINCIPLE. LYING AND FALSE IMPLICATION. §§§ Sweetser, E. ?The Definition of Lie.? In Cultural models in language and thought, ed. by Dorothy Holland and Naomi Quinn, 3? 66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Focus on pp. 48-63.) TOPIC 10: DISCOURSE DEIXIS. DISCOURSE MARKERS. §§§ Fraser, Bruce. 1999. ?What are discourse markers?? Journal of Pragmatics 31:931-952. TOPIC 11: Presentation of joint student projects §§§ - obligatory reading
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 24 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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How is it possible that when people talk, more gets communicated than is actually said? This is one of the main interests of pragmatics, a linguistic discipline which is traditionally described as a study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of these forms. This course provides an introduction to the study of pragmatics, the main aim being to make students familiar with basic terminology and approaches (reference and inference, speech acts, principle of cooperation, principle of politeness, argument structure). It also introduces more advanced topics and approaches in pragmatics, such as experimental pragmatics.
The course allows students to increase their sensitiveness to authentic language data as socially and pragmatically bound entities serving particular communicative purposes in respective language communities.
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Prerequisites
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A prerequisite for attending this course is the BA state exam in English Philology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Dialog
Students will be graded on a) attendance (3 absences maximum), b) active participation in discussions of the assigned reading (minimum to pass: 30 points; everything above 30 will be added as a bonus to the final test; everything below 30 will be a malus; less than 25: an essay has to be submitted,) c) presentation of a joint student project and d) a written test. ANT1/2 EXAM: 1. Semantics and pragmatics. Message model vs. inferential model of communication. Entailment and presupposition as a semantic vs pragmatic phenomenon? 2. Deixis. 3. Discourse deixis: Discourse markers as a pragmatic phenomenon. 4. Cooperative principle. Implicature. 5. Hedging and lying. 6. Relevance theory. 7. Experimental pragmatics. 8. Speech acts. Felicity conditions, direct and indirect speech acts. 9. Theories of politeness.
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Recommended literature
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Birner, Betty. Introduction into Pragmatics.
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Levinson, Stephen. (2003). Pragmatics. Cambridge.
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Mey, J.L. (1993). Pragmatics. Oxford.
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Yule, George. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford.
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