Syllabus
1) Pragmatics as a linguistic discipline. Linguistic turn. Topics of pragmatics.
2) Pragmatic analysis of the text.
3) Pragmatic principles – Cooperative principle (Grice).
4) Pragmatic principles – Politeness principles (Leech, Lakoff).
5) Face and Facework – Goffman, Brown and Levinson. Manifestation of face in Czech.
6) Geert Hofstede – cultural dimensions and their manifestation in Czech culture.
7) Politeness in Czech. Nominal addressing in Czech.
8) Power and solidarity – T and V forms, pronominal addressing.
9) Speech act theory (Austin, Searle).
10) Speech acts in Czech (apologies, requests, levels of directness).
11) Manipulative communication.
Annotation
The course briefly introduces pragmatics as a linguistic discipline. It is oriented towards pragmatics in Czech (e.g. politeness, positive and negative face and its manifestation in Czech, speech acts and their realization in Czech (requests, apologies, addressing), cooperative and politeness principle, manipulative communication. Development of pragmatic skills. Pragmatic analysis of the text.
Learning outcomes, goals, aims: Students will learn to analyse the oral and written texts from the pragmatic point of view and they will develop their communicative and socipragmatic skills.