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Lecturer(s)
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Opletalová Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The goal of the lecture "Pragmatics" is to familiarize students with the issues surrounding language use in various contexts, the distinction between literal and figurative meanings, and the topics of implications and presuppositions. Based on readings of key Texts in Analytic Philosophy (Austin, Searle, Grice), which also form the basis of linguistic pragmatics, participants will gain insight into speech act theory and the concept of conversational maxims. We will also deal with deixis. 1) Communication as InteractionLanguage as Action 2) Models of Communication and the Functions of Language 3) The Origins of Speech Act Theory (Austin) 4) Searle's Taxonomy of Illocutionary Roles 5) Communicative Verbs 6) Fiction from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory 7) Application of Searle's taxonomy to other sign systems 8) Conversational maxims 9) Presuppositions and implicatures 10) Deixis as a phenomenon at the intersection of pragmatics and semantics 11) The theory of politeness 12) Informal and formal address codes; honorifics vs. insults
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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The goal of the lecture "Pragmatics" is to familiarize students with the issues surrounding language use in various contexts, the distinction between literal and figurative meanings, and the topics of implications and presuppositions. Based on readings of key Texts in Analytic Philosophy (Austin, Searle, Grice), which also form the basis of linguistic pragmatics, participants will gain insight into speech act theory and the concept of conversational maxims. We will also deal with deixis.
The resulting competence consists of an overview of linguistic pragmatics and its terminology, an overview of its classical and more recent methods, and the ability to use theoretical knowledge in one's own empirical (and contrastive) research of language.
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Prerequisites
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The lecture is intended for all UP students, but especially for philology and translatology students. The knowledge of German language is required.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Written exam
The lecture ends with a written exam. Students choose 5 out of 10 exam topics and answer questions on them.
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Recommended literature
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Bühler, Karl. (1965). Die Darstellungsfunktion der Sprache. Stuttgart.
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Glück, Helmut (Hrsg.). (1993). Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Stuttgart/Weimar.
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Harras, Gisela; Winkler, Edeltraud; Erb, Sabine; Proost, Kristel. (2004). Handbuch deutscher Kommunikationsverben. Teil 1: Wörterbuch. Berlin.
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Judith Butler. (2006). Haß spricht. Zur Politik des Performativen. Frankfurt am Main.
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Krämer, Sybille. (2001). Sprache, Sprechakt, Kommunikation. Sprachtheoretische Positionen des 20. Jahrhun. Frankfurt am Main.
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Linke, Angelika; Nussbaumer, Markus; Portmann, Paul R. (2004). Studienbuch Linguistik. Tübingen.
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Staffeldt, Sven. (2007). Perlokutionäre Kräfte. Lexikalisierte Wirkungen sprachlicher Äußerungen im Deutschen. Frankfurt a.M.
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Sven Staffeldt und Jörg Hagemann (eds.). (2014). Pragmatiktheorien. Analysen im Vergleich. Tübingen.
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