Linguistics 3305-J-PT-1U

I.
Language as o biologic property of human species
Characterizing speakers` linguistic knowledge
The sounds and melodies od language
Words and their meaningful parts
The organizations of words into sentences
Meaning
Language acquisition
Language variation and change
Language modalities: spoken languages and sign languages
Areas of applied linguistics
II.
Analysis of language in context (or Pragmatics).
The relation between Pragmatics and other disciplines that also study human verbal language.
Main pragmatic principles.
Text and context
The linguistic context.
The situational context.
The extralinguistic context apart from the situational context: knowledge systems, common ground.
Aspects of identification / recognition of entities in context.
The system of deixis (persons, places, times, distances, ...).
The system of anaphora.
Context, propositional attitudes, modality and mood.
Predicates of proposicional attitude.
Modal verbs and other modal operators.
Atitudes proposicionais e modo verbal.
Elements for a compared analysis of verbal mood.
Implicit discourse: implicature.
Conventinal and conversational implicatures.
The computability of implicatures.
Implicit discourse II: pressuposition.
Pressuposition tiggers.
Cancelability of pressupositions.