AJ22082 Pragmatics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ22082/A: Mon 11:40–13:15 31, L. Urbanová
AJ22082/B: Mon 15:00–16:35 35, L. Urbanová
Prerequisites
orientation in semantics, discourse analysis, text analysis
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
Course objectives
1. Pragmatic vs. Semantic Meaning 2. Context and its Strata 3. Cooperative Principle 4. Politeness Principle 5. Irony Principle 6. Pragmatic Markers 7. Literary Pragmatics
Syllabus
  • 1. Pragmatic vs. Semantic Meaning 2. Context and its Strata 3. Cooperative Principle 4. Politeness Principle 5. Irony Principle 6. Pragmatic Markers 7. Literary Pragmatics
Literature
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. Principles of pragmatics. First published. New York: Longman, 1983, xii, 250. ISBN 0582551102. info
  • MEY, Jacob L. Pragmatics :an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, ix, 357 s. ISBN 0-631-18691-3. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. On the pragmatics of social interaction : preliminary studies in the theory of communicative action. Translated by Barbara Fultner. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001, xxiv, 192. ISBN 0262582139. info
  • SVOBODA, Aleš. Pragmatics, the attitudinal space, and functional sentence perspective. Edited by Aleš Svoboda. 1977, iii, 219. info
  • Pragmatics : a reader. Edited by Steven Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, viii, 595. ISBN 0195058984. info
  • Formal semantics and pragmatics of dialogue : proceedings of the thirtieenth Twente Workshop on Language Technology. Edited by Anton Nijholt - J. Hulstijn. Enschede: Universiteit Twente, 1998, 273 s. info
  • Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2000. info
  • MARKKANEN, Raija. Cross-language studies in pragmatics. Jyväskylä: Department of English, University of Jyväskylä, 1985, 99 p. ;. ISBN 951-679-335-5. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
esej v rozsahu 10 stran, pragmatická analýza vybraného textu, rozbor jazykového materiálu (kvantitativní a kvalitativní analýza pragmatických jevů)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Autumn 2017, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2005, recent)
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