Pragmatics - 2nd semester
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 describe language in use;
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 operations;
e) To analyze the functioning principles which carry out the verbal interaction.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Cognition
1.1 Language: signification construction and intersubjectivity
1.2 Reference and intersubjective adjustment
1.3 The role of deictical markers in the construction of signification
2. The Theory of Speech Acts
2.1 Reinach (the Social Acts) and Gardiner (the Speech Acts)
2.2 Austin: the Theory of Speech Acts
2.3 Searle: taxonomy of the ilocutory acts
3. Inference, pressuposition and implicature
4. Conversational pragmatics
4.1 Conversational implicatures
4.2 Grice´s conversational maxims
Bibliography
Blanchet, Philippe. La Pragmatique. 1996. DAustin à Goffman. Paris: Bertrand-Lacoste.
Levinson, Stephen C. 1982. Pragmatics, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lima, José Pinto de. 2006. O Essencial sobre Língua Portuguesa. Pragmática. Lisboa: Caminho.
Moeschler, Jacques & Anne Reboul. 1994. Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de Pragmatique. Paris: Ed. du Seuil.
Portolés, José. 2007. Pragmática para hispanistas. Madrid: Editorial Sintesis.
Searle, John R. 1981. Estrutura dos actos ilocucionais. In Os actos de fala. Coimbra: Livraria Almedina, pp. 73-96.
Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. 1989. La Pertinence. Communication et Cognition. Paris: Minuit (Tradução portuguesa: Relevância. Comunicação e Cognição. 2001. Lisboa: Fundação C. Gulbenkian).
Vidal, M.V. E. 1996. Introducción a la Pragmática. Barcelona: Ariel.
Teaching method
This UC is both theoretical and practical. Thus, from an initial schedule, we develop a balanced distribution and combination between theoretical (expository) lectures and practical lectures (with exercises, made and corrected in class).
Evaluation method
The evaluation focuses on the work done by students throughout the semester. It comprises:
a) two written tests on the different programmatic modules, each worth 40% of the total evaluation;
b) autonomous work (to be presented in class), with the weight of 20% of the assessment.
All the relevant information regarding the different aspects of the methodology is transmitted and made available to the student from the beginning of the semester