Modular elective lecture: Pragmatics 3200-L1-MPF-PRA
The course introduces the student into the area of pragmatics. It covers the basic concepts and central topics connected with the field, starting from the notion of sentence, utterance and proposition. This overview includes the discussion of the phenomena such as deixis, presupposition and entailment. The course also introduces a number of major theoretical frameworks and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research (cognitive account of metaphor, the theory of speech acts, the theory of conversational implicature and the theory of politeness).
Contact hours (in-class): 30 hrs
Self-study/individual work: 40 hours (working with assigned texts, doing homework assignments, revising for the end-of-semester test)
Total: 70 hours
If classroom teaching is impossible, the workshop will be conducted with the help of distant communication tools (Google Meet and other recommended by the University)
Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge
1) K1_W01: student knows the structure of a language as a system, has basic knowledge of the place and significance of pragmatics within linguistics and within the system of academic disciplines, and understands its subject specificity.
2) K1_W02: student knows the basic terminology of pragmatics.
3) K1_W04: student has basic knowledge of the major development tendencies and the most significant scholarly achievements in pragmatics.
4) K1_W05: student knows and understands the specificity of modern paradigms in linguistics (general and applied), has structured knowledge of theories and methodologies in pragmatics.
Skills
1) K1_U01: student can analyze texts critically as products of culture, search, analyze, evaluate and select authentic texts in the two studied foreign languages, and develop professional skills in applied linguistics.
2) K1_U02: student has basic research skills, can formulate research questions and use research tools in the area of pragmatics; can choose appropriate methods that allow to solve problems in the domain of pragmatics.
3) K1_U04: student can present arguments using the ideas of other authors and autonomously formulate conclusions in speech and in writing.
4) K1_U06: student can prepare written assignments, utilizing the basic theories from the field of pragmatics.
Socio-cultural competence:
1) K1_K01: student is prepared to adequately identify and resolve dilemmas in interlingual communication caused by the asymmetry of language systems and cultural differences, in compliance with the ethical behaviour models and by seeking expert opinions.
2) K1_K02: student is prepared to critically assess their knowledge in the field of pragmatics, appreciates the importance of factual arguments in solving research and practical problems (in professional situations).
Assessment criteria
1) attendance (2 unaccounted absences are allowed). Every absence above that limit requires justification, for instance with a doctor's note. If the number of absences exceeds 50% of classes, the student fails the course.
2) written final test worth 100 points:
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60-67% = dst, (3.0)
68-75% = dst+ (3.5)
76-83% = db, (4.0)
84-91% = db+, (4.5)
92-98% = bdb. (5.0)
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A student has the right to a re-take test. The form of the re-take test is identical with the form of the final test.
Practical placement
non-applicable
Bibliography
Huang, Y., 2007, Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford University Press.
Hurford, J., B. Heasley, and M. Smith, 2007 (2nd edn), Semantics: A Coursebook, Cambridge University Press.
Levinson, S., Pragmatics, 1983, Cambridge University Press.
O’Grady, W., J. Archibald, M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller, 2009, Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, Boston/New York: Bedford/St Martin’s.
Saeed, J.I., 2009, Semantics (Introducing Linguistics), Blackwell Publishing.
Thomas, J., 1995, Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Yule, G., 1996, Pragmatics, Oxford University Press.
Yule, G. 2004, The Study of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Additional information
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