FPF:UCJNU032 Semantics and Pragmatics - Course Information
UCJNU032 Semantics and Pragmatics
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 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
- Secondary School Teacher Training in German (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)
- 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.
- 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 to semantics
- 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
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Active participation in seminars
Final written and oral examination
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2014, recent)
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