DCJDR_NPR2 Pragmalinguistics II

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 10 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
prof. PhDr. Věra Janíková, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
DCJDR_NPR1 Pragmalinguistics I
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
Course objectives
The aim of this follow-up course is to seek for and mark the pragmatic differences between Czech and German texts and discourses.

At the end of the course the students should be able to:
- find pragmatic markers in a text
- describe pragmatic differences between Czech and German texts
- write a thesis on pragmalinguistic issues
- present a paper on a pragmalinguistic issue
Syllabus
  • Doctoral students are taught to be able to apply newly gained theoretical knowledge in their own research when writing their dissertations. Topics to cover: Relationship between pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines, syntax and semantics in particular. Deixis and its means. Spacial, time, personal and social deixis. Reference. Presupposition. Types of presupposition. Conversational and conventional implications. Principal of cooperation and conversational maxims. Theory of speech acts. Direct and indirect speech acts. Principles of politeness. Politeness and interaction. Conversation and preference structures. Conversational style and analysis. Discourse and culture analysis.
Literature
  • Brown, G., Yule, G. Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1983.
  • Yule, G. Pragmatics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • 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.
  • Besch, W. (ed.) Duzen, Siezen, Titulieren :zur Anrede im Deutschen heute und gestern. Götingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.
  • HIRSCHOVÁ, Milada. Pragmatika v češtině. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 243 s. ISBN 8024412837. info
  • ERNST, Peter. Pragmalinguistik : Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Probleme. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, 210 s. ISBN 9783110170139. info
  • HOLLY, Werner. Einführung in die Pragmalinguistik : germanistische Fernstudienenheit. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2001, 72 s. ISBN 3468495668. info
  • MEY, Jacob L. Pragmatics : an introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xiv, 392. ISBN 0631211322. info
  • THOMAS, Jenny. Meaning in interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii, 224. ISBN 0582291518. 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
Teaching methods
lecture, class discussion
Assessment methods
Course requirements: Oral examination - students submit a seminar paper on a chosen topic related to pedagogial practice. Debate.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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