(in Polish) Teorie aktów mowy - interpretacje i zastosowania 1500-SDN-TAMIIZ
Modern linguistic pragmatics has been searching for a theory that includes and explains all aspects and manifestations of utterance meaning. The most important approaches to Austin’s speech action theory, including critical proposals from language philosophy, will be the subject of this course.
The following topics will be discussed in detail, although the individual themes could be adapted to the interests and needs of the participants:
Pragmatics as a field of linguistic research
Precursors of speech act theory
Austin: locution, illocution, perlocution
Searle: classification of illocutions
Indicators of illocutionary force: conventions or intentions?
Indirect speech acts
Perlocutionary effects
Interactional speech act theory
Speech acts in discourse context
Fictional utterances as pretended assertions
Type of course
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Continual assessment: preparation for the classes and active participation (3 absences are allowed) as well as presentation of 20 min. paper on the topic agreed on with the lecturer at the beginning of the semester.
Retake: The student catches up on the subject matter in the form agreed on with the lecturer
Bibliography
Ariel, Mira (2010): Defining Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP.
Bach, Kent (2005): Context ex Machina. In: Szabo, Z. G. (ed.), Semantics versus Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP, 15-44.
Bach, Kent, Harnish, Robert M. (1979): Linguistic Communication and Speech Act. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Bogusławski, Andrzej (2021): Lingwistyczna teoria mowy. Preliminaria. Warszawa: WUW.
Huang, Yan (2017): Introduction: What is Pragmatics? In: Huang, Y. (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP, 1-18.
Jaszczołt, Katarzyna (2006): Pomiędzy semantyką a pragmatyką. In: Stalmaszczyk, P. (red.): Metodologie językoznawstwa. Podstawy teoretyczne. Łódź: WUŁ, 131-154.
Kalisz, Roman (1993): Pragmatyka językowa. Gdańsk: WUG.
Meier, Simon, Bülow, Lars, Liedtke, Frank, Marx, Konstanze, Mroczynski, Robert (eds.) (2019), 50 Jahre Speech-Acts: Bilanz und Perspektiven. Narr, Francke, Attempto, Tübingen.
Tsohatzidis, S. L. (ed.): John Searle’s Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning, and Mind. Cambridge: CUP.
Recanati, François (2004): Literal Meaning. Cambridge: CUP.
Recanati, François (2010): Truth-Conditional Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.
Rühlemann, Christoph (2019): Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics: A guide for research. New York: Routledge.
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