Modalitá di erogazione:
tradizionale

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Organizzazione didattica:
lezioni

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Metodi di Valutazione:
mista

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Anno di Corso

• Secondo Anno

• [ Lauree Triennali ] Corso di Lingue e Culture Europee ed Extraeuropee

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Anno Accademico:
2008/2009

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Risultati di Apprendimento:
Declarative knowledge: a grounding in fundamental concepts of pragmatics. Procedural knowledge: ability to apply these concepts when analysing spoken or written texts.          

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Attivitá di supporto alla didattica:
1. The practical part of this course consists of esercitazioni devoted to developing writing, speaking, listening and reading skills. For details of level, materials used and timetable please see either the notice board outside the offices of the Collaboratori ed Esperti Linguistici (Studios 6B and 6C on the ground floor of this Faculty), or the appropriate part of this website dedicated to personnel (Collaboratori ed Esperti Linguistici).    

 

2. Self-learning facilities with assistance of i Tutor per l'Autoapprendimento. For details, see the noticeboard outside the offices of the Collaboratori ed Esperti Linguistici (Studios 6B and 6C on the ground floor of this Faculty). 

 

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Testi di riferimento:
·       G. Yule, 1996, Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, Oxford;
·        J. Douthwaite, 1991, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, SEI, Torino (Second Chapter).
·       Supplementary materials will be indicated in the lesson when necessary.
  IT IS ESSENTIALTHAT STUDENTS POSSESS THESE TEXTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE

Programma del corso:

CORSO DI LAUREA TRIENNALE IN LINGUE E CULTURE EUROPEE ED EXTRAEUROPEE
LINGUA INGLESE – SECONDO ANNO ­
Programma Anni Accademici 2007/2008; 2008/2009; 2009/2010
Dott: Geoffrey Gray
            PRAGMATICS

The course consists of an introduction to pragmatics. The main areas covered are:

- Pragmatics contrasted with semantics - literal meaning and the message model of communication
- Deixis
- Reference and Inference
- Entailment and Presupposition
- Speech Act theory
- Grice’s Cooperative Principle and Implicature
- Politeness theories  
- Conversation and Preference Structure
 * For the programme concerning the practical part of this course (esercitazioni), please see either the notice board outside the offices of the Collaboratori ed Esperti Linguistici (Studios 6B and 6C on the ground floor of this Faculty), or the appropriate part of this website that is dedicated to personnel.    

Lesson 1: Introduction

Semantics, Literal Meaning and the Message Model of Communication
Deixis: Person Deixis, Place Deixis, Time Deixis
Lesson 2: Reference and Inference
Lesson 3: Entailment and Presupposition
Lesson 4: Speech Act Theory (Part I) 
Austin and Searle’s Theory of Speech Acts: Constatives and Performatives; Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Forces
Lesson 5: Speech Act Theory (Part II)
Direct Speech Acts and Indirect Speech Acts; Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID); Felicity Conditions
Lesson 6: Cooperation and Implicature (Part I)  
Grice’s Cooperative Principle and Maxims
Lesson 7: Cooperation and Implicature (Part II)  
Hedges, Conventional Implicature, Generalised Conversational Implicature, Particularised Conversational Implicature, Scalar Implicature
Lesson 8: Leech’s Theory of Politeness
Politeness Principle and Maxims
Lesson 9: Brown and Levinson’s Theory of Politeness
Positive and Negative Face; Face-Saving Acts and Face-Threatening Acts; Positive and Negative Politeness Strategies
Lesson 10: Conversation and Preference Structure
Speech Events, Conversation Analysis and Preference Structure: Floor, Turn-Taking, Transition Relevance Place (TRP), Adjacency Pairs.