Syllabus
Introduction. Basic terminology. Features and characteristics of spoken discourse
2. Approaches to Conversation
3. Pragmatic (and Semantic) Presuppositions
4. Speech Acts
5. Pragmatic Principles: Cooperative Principle
6. Pragmatic Principles: Politeness Principle; Approaches to Politeness
7. Other Pragmatic Principles. Deixis
8. Review
Annotation
This course follows the course Text Linguistics and Stylistics and aims at a more comprehensive, synthesizing view. The thematic core is formed by some of the key aspects of pragmatic analysis, including conversation and discourse analysis.
Considerable attention is paid to issues in the communicative framework. In addition to theoretical mastery of the phenomena, the course offers an opportunity to explore their use in authentic samples. Naturally, the recommended sources come chiefly from the English-speaking world, but in view of the students´ future teaching careers, these are enriched by studies of domestic origin. In relevant topics emphasis is put on a contrastive approach. The seminar project represents a pragmatic analysis of a selected textbook.