Syllabus
PRAGMATICS AND DISCOURSE SS 2025 – SYLLABUS
Notation:
RL – regular lecture (8:00-8:45)
CL – compensation lecture (for the teaching practice) (7:15-8:00)
RS – regular seminar 8:55-9:40 / 9:50-10:35
CS – compensation seminar (for the teaching practice) (7:15-8:00)
(Note: underlined readings are mandatory) 1.27/2/25 (CL): Introduction to Pragmatics; Written and Spoken Discourse. Features of Orality and Literacy.
READING: Yule/1; moodle PRAG 1.1; PRAG 1.2; PRAG 1.3;
(RL +RS) Selected Approaches to Conversation I.
READING moodle PRAG 2.1; PRAG 2.2; PRAG 2.3; 2.6/3/25 (CS): Course organization and requirements; Written and Spoken Discourse. Features of Orality and Literacy.
(RL+RS): Selected Approaches to Conversation II.; Presuppositions;
READING: Yule/ 4; Tsui; moodle PRAG 2.4; PRAG 3.1; 3.13/3/25 (CL): (Minitest); Deixis
READING: PRAG. 7.1; PRAG.7.2; PRAG.7.3;
(RL + RS): Speech Acts
READING: moodle PRAG 4.1; PRAG 4.2; 17/3-17/4/25 (Teaching Practice: No lessons during this perions – CLs, CSs instead) 4. 24/4/25 (CL + RS): Cooperative Principle and Related Issues
READING Yule/5; moodle PRAG. 5.1
(RL) (Mis)Communication and Manipulation
READING: moodle: PRAG. 5.2; PRAG.5.3; PRAG 6.3; 1&8/5/25 Missed classes (Bank holidays) Self-study: Irony, Banter and Other Pragmatic Principles
READING: moodle PRAG 6.2.; 5.15/5/25 (CS) Other Pragmatic Principles/ (Mis)Comunication and Manipulation
READING: moodle PRAG 6.3;
(RL+ RS): Approaches to Politeness. Politeness Principle
READING: moodle PRAG 6.1; PRAG 6.2; PRAG 6.3 6.16/5/25 (CL + CS Online) 16-17:30 18-18:45: Group Project Presentations (+ Review)
Annotation
The module develops the knowledge and skills gained in the prerequisites and induces deeper understanding of a comprehensive communicative frame, setting the speech event in diverse broader contextual parameters. The course addresses chiefly the core topics of pragmatic analysis, including various approaches to conversation and discourse analysis. Topics:
1. Introduction. Basic concepts
2. Conspicuous features of spoken discourse
3. Approaches to conversation 1
4. Approaches to conversation 2
5. Pragmatic (and semantic) presuppositions
6. Speech acts
7. Pragmatic principles 1
8. Pragmatic principles 2
9. Deixis
10. Review; comprehensive analysis of a sample
