Syllabus
PRAGMATICS 2024 – SYLLABUS
Notation:
RL – regular lecture (8:00-8:45)
CL – compensation lecture (for the teaching practice) (7:15-8:00) odd weeks
RS – regular seminar 8:55-9:40/ 9:50-10:35
CS – compensation seminar (for the teaching practice) 7:15-8:00/10:45-11:30 even weeks 1. 29/2/24 (CL): INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS; key concepts; (RL+RS): WRITTEN VS. SPOKEN DISCOURSE. FEATURES OF ORALITY AND LITERACY. 2. 7/3/24 (CS): Course organization and requirements; (RL+RS): APPROACHES TO CONVERSATION I. READING ASSIGNMENT: Yule/1; moodle PRAG 1.1; PRAG 1.2; PRAG 1.3; 3. 14/3/23 (CL+RS): APPROACHES TO CONVERSATION II; READING ASSIGNMENT: moodle PRAG 2.1; PRAG 2.2.; PRAG.2.3; PRAG 2.4 ; (RL): PRAGMATIC (AND SEMANTIC) PRESUPPOSITIONS: READING ASSIGNMENT: Yule/ 4; moodle PRAG 3.1 18/3-12/4 TEACHING PRACTICE – NO CLASSES 4. 18/4/24 (CS): PRAGMATIC (AND SEMANTIC) PRESUPPOSITIONS: READING ASSIGNMENT: Yule/ 4; moodle PRAG 3.1 (RL+S): SPEECH ACTS: READING ASSIGNMENT moodle PRAG 4.1; PRAG 4.2 5. 25/4/24 (CL): Minitest I. DEIXIS. moodle: PRAG. 7.1; PRAG.7.2; PRAG.7.3 (RL+RS): PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES I. COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND RELATED ISSUES. READING ASSIGNMENT: Yule/5; moodle 5.1 6. 2/5/25 (CS): DEIXIS. moodle: PRAG. 7.1; PRAG.7.2; PRAG.7.3; (RL+RS): PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES II. POLITENESS PRINCIPLE; APPROACHES TO POLITENESS; 7. 9/5/24 (CL): Minitest II. (CL+RS): OTHER PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES: READING ASSIGNMENT moodle PRAG 6.1.; PRAG 6.2; (RL): (MIS)COMMUNICATION, MANIPULATION. moodle: PRAG. 5.2; PRAG.5.3; PRAG.6.3. 8. 16/5/24 (CS): (MIS)COMMUNICATION, MANIPULATION (RL+S): REVIEW
REVIEW (NOTE: Seminar Papers submitted by the last seminar in hard copies and also electronically)
Note: underlined sources are mandatory.
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