Kód IS: 

AAA300104 (jednoobor)

AAA400104 (dvouoobor)

AAA500104 (navazující)

OBJECTIVES

To outline the central topics dealt with in pragmatics (deixis, speech acts, presupposition, Co-operative Principle, conversational implicature, maxims, politeness), and acquaint the students with essential texts which determined the development of pragmatics.  

Topics
01 Introduction - outlining pragmatics and basic issues
02 Levinson - Computing context: an example
03 Deixis
04 Speech acts
05 Conventional implicit meaning – presupposition, inference,
06 Non-conventional implicit meaning – Grice's Co-operative Principle
07 Conversational maxims and implicatures
08 Comparison of conventional and non-conventional implicatures (properties)
09 Non-observance of the maxims, indirect meaning
10 Politeness – Leech's Politeness Principle
11 Politeness – Brown-Levinson (face management)
12 Positive politeness
13 Negative politeness

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