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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
- conceptual metaphor
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- J.Mey, Pragmatics. An Introduction, (2nd ed) Blackwell, Oxford, 2002 (parts: I, II).
- G. Lakoff & Johnson M., Metaphors We Live by, (2nd ed.),University Of Chicago Press, 1980.
Notice
Students not taking the classes are recommended to inform the teacher in due time.
Oral exam
English language requirements
Level 5 (ALTE), C2 (Council of Europe)
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