PdF:DCJDR_NPR2 Pragmalinguistics I - Course Information
DCJDR_NPR2 Pragmalinguistics II
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 5 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.
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - 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
- Didactics of Foreign Language (programme PdF, D-SPE4) (2)
- 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
- Yule, G. Pragmatics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Brown, G., Yule, G. Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1983.
- Besch, W. (ed.) Duzen, Siezen, Titulieren :zur Anrede im Deutschen heute und gestern. Götingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.
- 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.
- HIRSCHOVÁ, Milada. Pragmatika v češtině. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 243 s. ISBN 8024412837. info
- Pragmalinguistik : Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Probleme. Edited by Peter Ernst. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, 210 s. ISBN 3110170132. 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
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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