UCJNNK10 Semantics and Pragmatics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/8/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
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
  • German (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
Course objectives
This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods of semantic and pragmatic analyses. It aims at word and prototype semantics, cognitive semantics and sentence and text semantics. The second part of the course pragmatics will be introduced as a linguistic discipline analyzing the meaning of whole texts. The course introduces the German Jewish literature of the 20th century and tries to deepen the insight in this interesting and important subject via the interpretation of selected texts. A specific focus lies on the writers who did not live in Germany or Austria, but in other multiethnic and multilingual places in Europe. The seminar focuses especially on writers of the German literature of Prague, from Galicia and the Bukovina. Books and texts for the course can be found in the German library and will be presented by different readers.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to semantics
    2. Signs, lexical and current meaning
    3. Word semantics, meaning relations
    4. Mental lexicon. Words in our head and words in a dictionary
    5. Reference theory. Language and world, coreference relations
    6. Sentence and text semantics, frame theory
    7. Pragmatic semantics
    8. Introduction to pragmatics
    9. Deixis
    10. Conversational implicatures, presuppositions
    11. Speech acts
    12. Conversational structures

    1. Introduction
    2. Jewish history and tradition
    3. Introduction in the German literature of Prague
    4. Franz Kafka: Das Urteil
    5. Franz Kafka: Das Urteil (2)
    6. The position of the father: Sigmund Freud`s concept of Oedipus
    7. Galicia: Joseph Roth: Juden auf Wanderschaft
    8. Bukovina: Rose Ausländer, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Itzik Manger
    9. Paul Celan: Todesfuge
    10. Writing after Auschwitz: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Theodor W. Adorno
    11. German Jewish literature of the present age
    12. Summary
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BabelOn: Lehr- und Lernumgebung. unter: http://luna.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/babelon/. info
  • Ernst, Peter (2004):. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft. Wien: Facultas. info
  • Schwarz, Monika (1993):. Semantik. Ein Arbeitsbuch. Tübingen: Niemeyer. info
  • Adamzik, Kirsten (2001):. Sprache: Wege zum Verstehen. Tübingen: Francke. info
  • Aitchison, Jean (1997):. Wörter im Kopf. Eine Einführung in das mentale Lexikon. Tübingen: Niemeyer. info
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Active participation in seminars
Final written and oral examination






NNK11 German Jewish Literature / Deutsch-jüdische Literatur
Attendance, active participation, homework. There will be a written or oral examination at the end of the course.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2013, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020.
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