UCJNU032 Semantics and Pragmatics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2015
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
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
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
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2016.
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