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Lecturer(s)
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Čakányová Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Pragmatics as a linguistic discipline 2. Deixis and distance 3. Reference and inference 4. Presupposition and entailment 5. Cooperative Principle 6. Implicature 7. Speech acts theory 8. Theories of Politeness 9. Impoliteness principle 10. Conversation and preference structure 11. Discourse and culture 12. Theory of relevance 13. Gender pragmatics 14. Pragmatics and non-verbal communication
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecturing, Practice exercises, Individual work of students
- Home preparation for classes
- 40 hours per semester
- Preparation for course credit
- 52 hours per semester
- Participation in classes
- 28 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| English C1 |
| English C1 |
| learning outcomes |
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| define the key terms and concepts of pragmatic linguistics (cooperative principle, implicature, speech acts, etc.) explain how we may say something and mean something else describe and compare implicature theory and relevance theory describe speech act theory analyse the communication strategies used in communication situations |
| define the key terms and concepts of pragmatic linguistics (cooperative principle, implicature, speech acts, etc.) explain how we may say something and mean something else describe and compare implicature theory and relevance theory describe speech act theory analyse the communication strategies used in communication situations |
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| evaluate the communication strategies used in the speech use theoretical knowledge to design appropriate communication strategies in specific communication situations identify and explain implicatures in a specific speech distinguish between foregrounded and backgrounded information in communication use pragmatic research methods to draw conclusions about communication |
| evaluate the communication strategies used in the speech use theoretical knowledge to design appropriate communication strategies in specific communication situations identify and explain implicatures in a specific speech distinguish between foregrounded and backgrounded information in communication use pragmatic research methods to draw conclusions about communication |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Practice exercises |
| Practice exercises |
| Individual work of students |
| Lecturing |
| Lecturing |
| Individual work of students |
| Skills |
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| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Didactic test |
| Didactic test |
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Recommended literature
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ARCHER, Dawn, Karin AIJMER and Anne WICHMANN. Pragmatics: An advanced resource book for students. London: Routledge, 2012. ISBN 9780415497862.
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CUTTING, Joan. Pragmatics and discourse: a resource book for students. London, 2008. ISBN 9780415446686.
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HUANG, Yan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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HUANG, Yan. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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YULE, George. Pragmatics. Oxford, 1996. ISBN 0194372073.
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