Learning Outcomes
Development of various theories of pragmatics and communication
Familiarity with the principles, the terminologies and the fields of socio- semio- pragmatics
Development of critical thinking concerning definitions of semio-pragmatics
Development of critical and analytical skills
Connections between theory and action through activities
Practice in speech analysis which articulates in different communicative circumstances.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course aims to analyze the language as a field in which the interlocutors use speech strategies in order to succeed the communicative goals. Students will research which are the components of the ‘’social opportunity’’ and what speech is appropriate in various communicative circumstances, ex. Media speech. Furthermore, they learn how to collect and classify linguistic data in order to accomplish the linguistic analysis.