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To introduce students to the analysis of literary/cultural texts from a pragmatic perspective thus enabling an understanding and identification of processes of meaning making. Both theory and practice will be considered.
Introduction to pragmatics:
- illocutionary acts and performative hypothesis
- speech acts
- cooperative principle and conversational maxims
- ‘indirectness’
- ‘politeness’
- conversation analysis
- polyphony
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- J.Mey, Pragmatics. An Introduction, (2nd ed) Blackwell, Oxford, 2002 (parts: I, II).
- J. Mey, When Voices Clash. A Study in Literary Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2000.
Oral exam
English language requirements
Level 5 (ALTE), C2 (Council of Europe
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