Pragmatics

Course Information
TitleΠραγματολογία / Pragmatics
CodeΓλ 541
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600016487

Programme of Study: PMS THEŌRĪTIKĪS KAI EFARMOSMENĪS GLŌSSOLOGIAS

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
GLŌSSOLOGIAElective CoursesWinter/Spring-10
Class Information
Academic Year2018 – 2019
Class PeriodWinter
Class ID
600132953
EPIChallenges
  • European Values
Type Of Offer
  • Disciplinary Course
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
CEFR level in English: at least C1
Learning Outcomes
Students will develop a better understanding of the following areas in linguistic pragmatics: the distinction between semantic/pragmatic aspects of meaning, deixis, presupposition, theory of implicature, speech-act theory. Students will be able to follow actively and autonomously research developments in theoretical and applied pragmatics.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
In this course, students will learn that we do not only describe the world with language (as is shown in semantic studies), but most importantly, we act and perform in language, or, in one word, we socialize, get married, undertake to help others, apologize, or request, and all this is done exclusively with language. We often mean much more than what we say. We will examine all these issues in the component of the course called pragmatics, but we’ll also see how the two components of semantics (meaning in language) and pragmatics (meaning more than you say or do in language) are intrinsically intertwined every time we use language. The course is of immediate interest for the language teacher as it underpins current teaching methodologies, but it is also of interest to a variety of other language-based disciplines, s.a. literature, language impairment (semantic and pragmatic disorders), psychiatry, translation, computational linguistics, language programming, etc.
Keywords
pragmatics, subtext, hypertext, speech acts, deixis, presupposition
Educational Material Types
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures1284.7
Written assigments1475.3
Total27510
Student Assessment
Description
Written assignments, Final exams
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Carston, Robyn (2002). Relevance Theory: the Pragmatics of Explicit Communication. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing. Chierchia, Gennaro & Sally McConnellGinet (1900). Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. Davis, Steven (ed.) (1991). Pragmatics: a reader. Oxford University Press. Levinson, Stephen (2000). Presumptive Meanings: a theory of generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. Levinson, Stephen (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press. Marmaridou, Sophia (2000). Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition. John Benjamins Publishing Company May, Jacob (1993). Pragmatics: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing.
Last Update
12-12-2023