AJ4_OPRA Pragmatics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2000
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
AJ4_NSYB Normative syntax B
This course can be taken only after completing the course in normative syntax.
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Relations between pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines, notably semantics and syntax. Deixis and distance. Reference and inference. Presupposition and entailment. The cooperative principle. Conversational and conventional implicatures. Speech acts and events. Direct and indirect speech acts. Politeness and interaction. Conversation and preference structure. Discourse and culture.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction into the study of pragmatics. 2. Deixis and distance. 3. Reference and inference. 4. Presupposition and entailment. 4. Cohesion and coherence. 5. The cooperative principle. 6. Conversational and conventional implicatures. 7. Speech act theory. Direct and indirect speech acts. 8. Politeness and interaction. 9. Conversation and preference structure. 10. Conversational style and its analysis. 11. Logic and conversation. 12. Discourse and culture. 13. Cross-cultural pragmatics. Cultural schemata.
Literature
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
  • THOMAS, Jenny. Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii, 224. ISBN 0582291518. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. Principles of pragmatics. First published. New York: Longman, 1983, xii, 250. ISBN 0582551102. info
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 288. ISBN 0521284759. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Typ výuky: sem. jazyk. cvič.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2000, recent)
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