PdF:AJ3DC_PRAG Pragmatics - Course Information
AJ3DC_PRAG Pragmatics
Faculty of EducationSpring 2013
- 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. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ3DC_PRAG/OS01: Fri 1. 3. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, Fri 22. 3. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, Fri 12. 4. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, Fri 26. 4. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, Fri 10. 5. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, Fri 24. 5. 18:30–20:10 učebna 6, R. Povolná
- Prerequisites
- Pragmatics can be studied 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 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
- Extension of Teaching Qualification for secondary schools (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course labelled Pragmatics is to introduce students into the study of pragmatics, i.e. a linguistic discipline which views the language from the point of view of its users - humans. In this respect the course will be in contrast to students´ previous study of syntax and semantics. The course concentrates on the most important issues connected with the study of pragmatics with the aim to make students acquainted with the possibilities how to encorporate their knowledge of pragmatics into their future daily teaching profession.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the study of pragmatics. 2. Deixis and distance. 3. Reference and inference. 4. Presupposition and entailment. 5. The cooperative principle. Conversational implicature. 6. Conventional implicature. 7. Conversation analysis. Features typical of spoken interaction. Conversational style. 8. Conversation and preference structure. 9. Speech acts and speech events. Performative hypothesis. 10. Direct and indirect speech acts. 11. Speech act classification. 12. Politeness and interaction. Positive and negative politeness. 13. Discourse and culture. Discourse analysis. 14. Revision. 15. Credits.
- Literature
- required literature
- YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
- Teaching methods
- Mode of teaching: seminar The methods used in classes are presentations of new and problematic issues by the teacher, who provides students with some necessary theoretical background. This is always suplemented by many examples. Then, after discussing the given topic with their teacher, students are asked to prepare and simulate authentic conversational situations in which they are supposed to use structures and/or strategies under discussion. As for homework, students are supposed to study in advance relevant chapters from their textbooks and be ready for class discussions. Apart from that, students have to do various interactive moodle modules including quizzes designed particularly for their course.
- Assessment methods
- For getting a credit, students must pass a credit test which consists of three topics, different for every student, taken from the subject matter studied during the term and an on-line moodle test in the middle of the term. Moreover, all students are supposed to prepare a short suggestion how to use pragmatics in their own teaching profession.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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