Pragmatics
Code
711131031
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Helena Topa Valentim
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To identify the study object of pragmatics.
b) To relate enunciation, reference construction and meaning support.
c) To characterize speech acts and types of inference.
d) To identify the linguistic processes of contemporary European Portuguese that mark different illocutionary forces and support presuppositional mechanisms.
e) To analyze the functioning principles which carry out the verbal interaction.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Referential and enunciative approach; the role of deictical markers in the construction of sense.
2. The study object of pragmatics and different pragmatic approaches
3. Accional approach; the concept of speech act, different types of speech acts and the linguistic markers of different illocutionary forces.
4. Inferential approach; the concept of inference, different types of inference and principles of verbal interaction.
5. Conversational pragmatics - introductory aspects.
Bibliography
LEVINSON, Stephen C., Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
LIMA, José Pinto de. O Essencial sobre Língua Portuguesa. Pragmática. Lisboa: Caminho, 2006.
PORTOLÉS, José, Pragmática para hispanistas. Madrid: Editorial Sintesis, 2007.
RODRIGUES, Adriano Duarte, A Partitura Invisíve. Lisboa: Colibri, 2001.
SPERBER, Dan & Deirdre WILSON, La Pertinence. Communication et Cognition. Paris: Minuit, 1989 (Tradução portuguesa: Relevância. Comunicação e Cognição, Lisboa, Fundação C. Gulbenkian, 2001).
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical classes (presentation and discussion of individual and group works; analysis and discussion workshops).
Evaluation method
A test on all the subjects taught during the semester. Different group works presented in class. Preparation of an individual critical review.