PdF:DCJDR_APR2 Pragmalinguistics I - Course Information
DCJDR_APR2 Pragmalinguistics II
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Světlana Hanušová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Prerequisites
- DCJDR_APR1 Pragmalinguistics I
The course labelled Pragmalinguistics 2 can be taken by any doctoral student who has mastered the course titled Pragmalinguistics 1. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Didactics of Foreign Language (programme PdF, D-SPE4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is the acquiring of the most important issues from the area of pragmalinguistics, which, unlike syntax and semantics, takes into consideration the users of a particular language and the entire situational context, which determines a given communicative situation. Apart from that the course participants are expected to be able to apply their knowledge from pragmalinguistics and other branches of linguistics in their own teaching professions.
- Syllabus
- The course of Pragmalinguistics is a core subject of the linguistic section and presents an indispensable starting point for the understanding of contemporary didactic trends. The course objective is to gain basic knowledge of pragmalinguistics, i.e. a linguistic field which unlike syntax or semantics, takes into consideration the user of the language and the whole situational context which determines a given communicative situation. Doctoral students are taught to be able to apply newly gained theoretical knowledge in their own research when writing their dissertations. Topics to be covered: Relationship between pragmalinguistics and other linguistic disciplines, syntax and semantics in particular. Deixis and deictic expressions and their manifestation in the language system. Spacial, time, personal and social deixis. Reference and inference. Presupposition. Types of presupposition. Conversational and conventional implicatures. Principals of cooperation and conversational maxims. Cooperative Principle. Politeness Principle. Theory of speech acts. Direct and indirect speech acts. Politeness and interaction. Conversation and preference structures. Conversational style and its analysis. Pragmatic schemata. Discourse and culture.
- Literature
- required literature
- Yule, G. Pragmatics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- THOMAS, Jenny. Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii, 224. ISBN 0582291518. info
- recommended literature
- Brown, G., Yule, G. Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1983.
- HIRSCHOVÁ, Milada. Pragmatika v češtině. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 243 s. ISBN 8024412837. info
- MEY, Jacob L. Pragmatics : an introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xiv, 392. ISBN 0631211322. info
- MCCARTHY, Michael. Discourse analysis for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, x, 213. ISBN 0521367468. info
- LEECH, Geoffrey N. Principles of pragmatics. First published. New York: Longman, 1983, xii, 250. ISBN 0582551102. info
- not specified
- Besch, W. (ed.) Duzen, Siezen, Titulieren :zur Anrede im Deutschen heute und gestern. Götingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.
- Birkenbihl, V. F. Signale des Körpers (Körpersprache verstehen). München: mvg-verlag, 1994.
- Wagner, K. (ed.) Pragmatik der deutschen Sprache. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001.
- 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
- Teaching methods
- lecture, class discussion, students presentations
- Assessment methods
- Oral exam and discussion on students seminar work: this work, which must be submitted by doctoral students before the exam, deals with the topic chosen according to students field of interest and the topic of their presentations in which they are supposed to illustrate how pragmalinguistics can be applied in contact teaching
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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