NJII_1174 Pragmatics and Paralinguistics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 18:20–19:05 G12
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of common linguistics; passed exam in any introduction into linguistics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
This course brings basic information about the phenomenon of the human communication: “body language”, paralanguage and natural human language in different situations. The aims of this course are: to present then the above mentioned features; to discuss the importance of “code switching” in different communicative situations; to show pragmatic differences between the Austrian German and “German” German as well as between German (in general) and Czech.
As the students must present a paper in a seminar, the next (secondary) goal of this course is to train/gain skills in preparing and presenting a scientific text in a foreign language.
Syllabus
  • 1)Communication:
  • Communication as an Act; the communication models; communication partners; communication channels; transmitting messages in face-to-face communication ; functions of a communication; the role of the human speech in the communication
  • 2) Paralinguistics:
  • Definition and its role; paralanguage; body language (gestures, distance etc.)
  • 3) Pragmalinguistics:
  • Definition and its role in the modern linguistics; the history of pragmalinguistics; Grice’s maxims of conversations; proposition and implicature; speech acts
  • 4) Performative vs. non-performative speech
  • 5) Illocutionary acts
  • 6) Duzen x Siezen
  • 7) Deixe and Articles
Literature
  • Birkenbihl, Vera F.: Signale des Körpers (Körpersprache verstehen). mvg-verlag, München. 1994
  • Pragmalinguistik : Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Probleme. Edited by Peter Ernst. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, 210 s. ISBN 3110170132. info
  • HOLLY, Werner. Einführung in die Pragmalinguistik : germanistische Fernstudienenheit. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2001, 72 s. ISBN 3468495668. info
  • WAGNER, Klaus R. Pragmatik der deutschen Sprache. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001, 495 s. ISBN 3-631-37776-2. info
  • LEVINSON, Stephen C. Pragmatik. Translated by Martina Wiese. 3. Aufl. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2000, xiii, 476. ISBN 3-484-22039-2. info
  • BESCH, Werner. Duzen, Siezen, Titulieren : zur Anrede im Deutschen heute und gestern. Illustrated by Markus Eidt. 2. erg. Aufl. Götingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, 160 s. ISBN 3525340095. info
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
Assessment methods
First 3 to 4 units lecture as an input. In all further units discussions to papers. Credit for a presented paper (see Packages of Topics).
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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