Pragmatics, an Introduction WH-R-Pragmatics
This course is dedicated to PhD., MA or BA students from UKSW, as well as visiting students.
1. Pragmatics : an introduction
1.1. Syntax / Semantics / Pragmatics
1.2. An historic perspective
1.3. New tendencies
2. Communication as action
2.1. The theory of speech acts (Austin)
2.2. Communication as a language game (Wittgenstein)
2.3. Meaning intention (Grice)
2.3.1. Implicatures
3. Searle’s philosophy of language
3.1. A new approach to speech acts
3.2. Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind
3.3. Indirect speech acts
3.4. Non literal speech acts
Poziom przedmiotu
Symbol/Symbole kierunkowe efektów uczenia się
Efekty kształcenia
DRL_W03 (PhD student owns established knowledge In the field of Humanities)
DRL_U01 (PhD student can use information critically and independently, can perform analysis of various range of data, resources and literature)
Kryteria oceniania
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to understand the importance of main and seminal works in pragmatics from both a philosophical and a communicational paradigms
Students will acquire instruments for a better understanding of everyday interlocutions as well as will be prepared to a better comprehension of the interaction processes
From a theoretical point of view students will be able to confront different schools and authors in order to understand language, communication and special non literal and non direct speech acts.
Assessment methods
- Oral presentation (teamwork) - 60%
- Individual short exercise - 30%
- Participation in class - 10%
Assessment Methodology:
Each subject will be firstly provided as a lecture on the particular Issue, then further discussed in accordance with further readings allocated for presentations and obligatorily written by students.
All required readings are available in The Library of Humanities room 303 at Devaitis Campus New Building in the Folder called: Cultural Communication and the Public Sphere in Contemporary World. Folder will be provided to use in place at student request by the library staff. grade based on triple factorial assessment :
1.Attendance (up to one absence allowed)
2. Activity (constant assessment based on student activities during the spam of the course and academic knowledge of required readings.)
3 Attendance in the workshops
Conservatory English and fluency in reading are required Conservatory English and fluency in reading are required.
Praktyki zawodowe
N/A
Literatura
Mandatory literature
Austin, J. (1962) How to do things with words, Oxford University Press.
Grice, H. Logic and Conversation, in Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Meaning (1948), in Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Further Notes on Logic and Conversation in Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1991.
Searle, J. (1985), Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press.
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