| Course title | Introduction to Pragmatics |
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| Course code | KAA/UPRG |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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Main topics and theories covered: Reference and inference. Deixis. Cooperative Principle. Implicatures. Speech act theory. Politeness Principle and other theories of politeness. Tentative syllabus Syllabus TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION AND PRELIMINARIES. SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 1: 3-8). § Saeed, John I. 2016. Semantics. Wiley Blackwell. (Read Chapter 1.6: 11-17) TOPIC 2: CONTEXT AND INFERENCE. § Brown, G., and G. Yule. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. (Read parts of Chapter 2: 35-49; 58-67) TOPIC 3: FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE. SPEECH ACT THEORY. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 6: 47-58). TOPIC 4: REFERENCE AND INFERENCE. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 3: 17-24). TOPIC 5: DEIXIS. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 2: 9-16). TOPIC 6: PRESUPPOSITION AND ENTAILMENT. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 4: 25-34). TOPIC 7: COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE. IMPLICATURE. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 5: 35-47). TOPIC 8: POLITENESS. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapter 7: 59-70). TOPIC 9: PRAGMATICS OF INTERACTION. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS. CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS. § Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford UP. (Chapters 8-9: 71-89).
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
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| Learning outcomes |
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What do people mean by what they say? 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 the basic terminology, theories, and approaches (context, reference and inference, presupposition, speech acts, cooperative principle and implicature, politeness).
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. |
| Prerequisites |
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A prerequisite for attending this course is the Introduction into Linguistics course (UJ00). International students: linguistic background & certificate of English language proficiency (B2 as per CEFR)
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance, Dialog
Students will be graded on a) attendance (2 absences maximum); b) active participation (discussion of assigned reading); c) assigned reading (reading questions in the handouts: minimum to pass: 30 points; everything above 30 will be added as a bonus to your first test; anything below 30 will be a malus; less than 25: an essay has to be submitted); d) a written test. Bonus points do not apply if a student is retaking the course. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |