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14222 Pragmàtica en Llengua Anglesa - LL.FILOL.ANGLESA 00

Centre

Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació

Departament

Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya

Professor responsable

Sin datos cargados

Met. Docent

Lectures

Bibliografia

Austin, J. (1962) How to Do Things with Words, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Blakemore, D. (1992) Understanding Utterances , Oxford: Blackwell.
Brown, G. and Yule, G. (1983) Discourse Analysis, Cambridge University Press.
Brown, P. and Levinson, S.C. (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Escandell Vidal, M.V. (1993) Introducción a la Pragmática, Barcelona: Anthropos.
Fraser, B. (1980) ôConversational Mitigationö, Journal of Pragmatics 4, 341-350.

Continguts

UNIT 1: PRAGMATICS: AN INTRODUCTION.
1. The Pragmatic Perspective.
2. Speaker Meaning vs. Utterance Interpretation. The Negotiation of Meaning.
3. Sense, reference & force. Implicatures.
Set reading:Thomas (1995:chapter 1)

UNIT 2: SPEECH ACTS.
1. Constative vs. Performative utterances. The Descriptive fallacy.
2. The performative hypothesis.
3. Locution, Illocution & Perlocution.
4. Felicity conditions.
5. A classification of speech acts.
6. Direct and Indirect Speech Acts.
7. Speech acts & conversational sequences.
Set reading: to be determined.

UNIT 3: SAYING AND IMPLICATING: GRICE & THE CP.
1. The Cooperative Principle and the Maxims.
2. Conversational implicatures: generalized, scalar & particularized.
3. Features of conversational implicatures.
4. Inferencing procedure
5. Conventional implicatures: properties.
Set readings: to be determined

UNIT 4: PRAGMATICS AND CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION.
1. Speech acts and Speech events.
2. Taking turn: interactional sequences.
3. Activity types(goal, structure and style) and perception (schema theory)

UNIT 5: LINGUISTIC POLITENESS THEORY.
1. Lakoff: clarity and politeness.
2. Fraser: Conversational Contract.
3. Leech: Politeness Principle and Maxims.
4. Brown& Levinson: linguistic politeness strategies.
5. Cultural and socio-cognitive approach to linguistic politeness.
Set readings: Turner