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Lecturer(s)
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Foretová Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Definitions; laying out the territory 2) Speech acts 3) The Irreducibility Thesis 4) Indirect Speech Acts 5) Implicature: Gricean Maxims 6) Generalized Conversational Implicatures 7) Explicature and Impliciture, if such things exist 8) The Semantics vs. Pragmatics question revisited 9) Formalizing Gricean Maxims 10) Presuppositions 11) Reference 12) Lying vs. Misleading (and why it matters)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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This course will serve as an introduction to pragmatics concepts. The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the problems of pragmatists and give them a general overview of its basic themes, concepts and approaches. The course will be conducted primarily at the practical level, however, resting on a clear interpretation of the general pragmatists. Will focus primarily on analysis of selected media texts that will be analyzed in the seminar.
Students will acquire skills of the course according to sylabus.
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Prerequisites
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The knowledge of basic semiotics and linguistics concepts.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Seminar Work
Conditions for granting credit: - Participation in the semester project - Absence of a maximum of two - The performance of tasks during the semester. Colloquium: defense semester project.
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Recommended literature
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Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Praha, NLN 2004.
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Austin, J. L. Jak udělat něco se slovy, Filosofia, Praha 2000.
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Hirschová, M. Pragmatika v češtině. Olomouc 2006.
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Machová, S.-Švehlová, M. Sémantika a pragmatická lingvistika. Praha, PdF UK 2001.
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Mey, J. L. Pragmatics. Oxford and Cambridge, Blackwell 1993.
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Searle, J. R. Speech acts. An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge, CUP 1969.
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Watzlawick, P., Bavelasová, J.B., Jackson, D.D. Pragmatika lidské komunikace. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1999..
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