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Lecturer(s)
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Martinková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Livingstone David, Mgr. Ph.D.
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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
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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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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 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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Recommended literature
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Mey, J.L. (1993). Pragmatics. Oxford.
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Saeed, J. Semantics.
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Yule, George. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford.
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