AJ3DC_PRAG Pragmatics

Faculty of Education
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
Pragamtics can be taken by any student of English, preferably after functional and communicative syntax, and must be taken by all students in all the programmes for secondary schools.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Subject: Pragmatics Teacher: Renata Povolná Program: Textbooks: Pragmatics by G. Yule (compulsory), Meaning in Interaction by J. Thomas (recommended) February (25.2) Introduction to the study of pragmatics. Syntax, semantics, pragmatics. March (4.3.) Deixis and distance. Person, spatial, temporal deixis. Deixis and grammar. March (18.3.) Reference and inference. Referring expressions. Names and referents. The role of co-text and context. April (8.4.) Presupposition and entailment. Constancy under negation. Types of presupposition. Ordered entailments. The cooperative principle. Maxims. Conversational implicature. Types of conversational implicature. Conventional implicature. Conversation analysis. Features typical of spoken interaction. Conversational style. April (22.4.) Conversation and preference structure. Adjacency pairs. Preferrred and dispreferred social acts. Revision. April (29.4.) Speech acts and speech events. Performative hypothesis. Direct and indirect speech acts. Speech act classification. Politeness and interaction. Face wants. Positive and negative face. Politeness. May (3.5.) Positive and negative politeness. Solidarity and deference strategy. Terms of address. Presequences. May (10.5.) Discourse and culture. Discourse analysis. Cohesion and coherence. Cultural schemata. Frame. Script. Background knowledge. Pragmatic accent May 20.5. (morning) or 27.5. (afternoon) Revision. Credits.
Literature
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 288. ISBN 0521284759. info
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
  • YULE, George. The study of language [Yule, 1996]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiii, 294. ISBN 0-521-56851-X. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
For getting a credit, students must past a test which consists of three topics, different for every student, taken from the subject matter studied during the term.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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