AJB_PRAG Pragmatics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Renata Jančaříková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJB_PRAG/01: Fri 5. 10. 14:00–19:00 učebna 6, Mon 17. 12. 14:00–19:00 kancelář vyučujícího, M. Adam
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
!!!!!!!!!This block option course is open only to the students who made their preliminary reservation in the Spring 2012!!!!!!!!!!!! The course is taught as an intensive block option on 19-21 Sept 2012 (always 2-6pm) only; the dates and timing given by the IS is not relevant!!! Advanced knowledge of English + passing all compulsory linguistic disciplines from the 1st year. The course will be accessible to participants with little or no knowledge of pragmatics and will be structured in such a way as to cater also for participants eager to update existing knowledge.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
In this short course, we’ll first update ourselves on the major areas of pragmatic meaning including the way in which speakers convey intentionality (speech acts and illocutionary force) and encode context (indexicality), and how those they address infer meanings (implicatures) that aren’t actually stated. Whilst pragmatics has traditionally been thought of as the study of utterance meaning, we’ll also explore recent approaches which focus on the context-sensitive nature of lexical items and the inferences they invite. A further area we’ll consider is the extent to which speakers show their awareness of the pragmatic effects of their utterances and attempt to guide their interpretation. Having established this foundation, we’ll then turn to the pragmatic skills that learners bring to the task of language learning and the thorny question of how language teachers should approach pragmatics in the second language learning context.
Syllabus
  • Wednesday 19 September 2012
  • 14.00 – 15.50 Pragmatics and intentionality
  • 16.10 – 18.00 Pragmatics and inference
  • Thursday 20 September 2012
  • 14.00 – 15.50 Lexical pragmatics
  • 16.10 – 18.00 Pragmatics, indexicality and metapragmatic awareness
  • Friday 21 September 2012
  • 14.00 – 15.00 Perspectives on pragmatics in the language classroom: problems with the existing perception
  • 15.15 – 16.15 Pragmatics and learner talk
  • 16.30 – 17.30 Perspectives on pragmatics in the language classroom: implications for language teaching methodology
  • 17.30-18.00 Discussion
Literature
    required literature
  • GRUNDY, Peter. Doing Pragmatics. Hodder Education, 2008 (3rd ed.), 304pp. ISBN. 978-0340971604.
    recommended literature
  • The handbook of pragmatics. Edited by Laurence R. Horn - Gregory L. Ward. 1st pub. in pbk. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, xix, 842. ISBN 9780631225485. info
  • WIERZBICKA, Anna. Cross-cultural pragmatics : the semantics of human interaction. Second edition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, xxxvii, 50. ISBN 3110177692. info
  • THOMAS, Jenny. Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii, 224. ISBN 0582291518. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. Explorations in semantics and pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1980, 133 s. ISBN 9027225060. info
Teaching methods
block seminars, class discussions, projects, presentations
Assessment methods
written projects and oral presentaions
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: předmět vyučuje Peter Grundy, Durham University, UK.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2034
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