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 learning is impossible, the workshop will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools (Google Meet and others recommended by the University)
Prerequisites (description)
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Type of course
Mode
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
• W1: student has structured knowledge in the area of pragmatics which is oriented towards practical applications in the scope of English language teaching or translation
• W2: student has structured knowledge of the basic issues and problems of research in pragmatics;
• W2: student understands current research methodologies and how they are applied to data analysis in pragmatics
• W3: student knows the basic terminology in the area of pragmatics
• W9: student is aware of the sophisticated nature of meaning in the studied language as well as the complexity of meaning relations.
Skills
• U3: student recognizes basic meaning relationships on the levels of words, phrases and sentences;
• U3: student is able to analyze the explicit and implicit meanings of a linguistic message by means of different linguistic tools;
• U3: student is able to interpret different linguistic phenomena in human communication, approaching them in a critical and analytical way;
Social Competences
• K1: student is able to apply the knowledge gained during the course in communication occurring in real life conditions;
Assessment criteria
1) attendance (2 absences are allowed), for each excessive unjustified absence 5 percentage points are deduced from the final test score
2) final test worth 100 points:
0-59% = ndst, (2.0)
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)
99-100%= bdb.! (5.0!)
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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