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An Introduction to English Pragmatics - AAA400104
Title: Pragmatika
Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AAA500104
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr
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Annotation -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)
An introduction to linguistic pragmatics aiming to outline the central topics dealt with by the discipline (deixis, speech acts, presupposition, cooperative principle, maxims and implicatures, politeness) and familiarize with the essential texts that have determined the development and approaches of pragmatics.
Literature -
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Essential literature

Thomas, J., Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics, Longman,1995.

Verschueren, J., Understanding Pragmatics, Arnold, 1999.

Yule, G., Pragmatics, Oxford UP, 1996.

Huang, Y., Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Brown, P., S.C. Levinson, Politeness. Some universals in language use, Cambridge UP, 1978.

Leech, G., Principles of Pragmatics, Longman, 1983.

Supplementary literature

Ariel, M., Defining Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press 2010.

Blakemore, D., Understanding Utterances, Blackwell, 1992.

Cruse, A., A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Green, Georgia M., Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding, LEA, 1989.

Grundy, P., Doing Pragmatics, Arnold, 1995.

Levinson, Stephen C., Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Mey, L. Jacob, Pragmatics. An Introduction, Blackwell, 1993.

Sperber, d., D. Wilson, Relevance, Blackwell, 1986.

Teaching methods -
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seminar

Syllabus -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (03.10.2010)

1. Introduction - defining pragmatics and the basic issues

2. Levinson - Computing context: an example

3. Deixis

4. Speech acts

5. Conventional implicit meaning - presupposition, inference

6. Nonconventional implicit meaning - Grice?s Cooperative Principle

7. Conversational maxims and implicatures

8. Comparison of conventional and conversational implicatures (properties)

9. Nonobservance of maxims, indirect meaning

10. Politeness - Leech?s Politeness Principle

11. Politeness - Brown-Levinson (face management)

12. Positive politeness

13. Negative politeness

 
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