UCJAZPK1 Introduction to Pragmalinguistics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/5/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. René Kron, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(N)
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
  • English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
Course objectives
The course includes the history of this fast-developing discipline from its beginnings, from Charles Morris to index expressions and Searle`s theory of speech acts to Grice`s cooperation principle and Leeches politeness principle. It also deals with pragmatic phenomena that were studied earlier but named differently (mainly functional approach) and it adds pragmalinguistics among the related disciplines and inter-disciplines. The main topics are:
Syllabus
  • 1. Text linguistics and discourse analysis. (3.1.3)
    2. Cohesion and coherence. The organization of text. (3.1.3.1, 3.1.3.2)
    3. Functional Sentence Perspective. Conversational analysis. (3.1.3.3, 3.1.3.4)
    4. Ch. Morris and the three levels of semiotics (the study of the sign systems): syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. A period of hesitation. (3.2.1, 3.2.1.1)
    5. Indexical expressions (personal, local, temporal, and social deixis). Austin`s and Searle`s theory of Speech Acts. (3.2.1.2, 3.2.1.3)
    6. Grice`s Cooperative Principle and its maxims. The situation in everyday conversation (Grice`s maxims are frequently broken). (3.2.1.4)
    7. Leech`s Politeness Principle and the parameters of cost and benefit. Maxim of Tact and Maxim of Generosity. (3.2.1.5)
    8. Leech`s Maxim of Approbation and Maxim of Modesty. Links with ethnolinguistics. (3.2.1.5)
    9. Related interdisciplines of pragmalinguistics: Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics (3.2.2., 3.2.3)
    10. Pragmalinguistics today.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Presentation.
Instructions ro self-study will be provided during initial consultations, in the study support for this course and the references to the recommended literature.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2020.
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