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In this seminar, we will deal with the linguistic field of pragmatics. In contrast to semantics, which is concerned with meaning independent from context and speaker, pragmatics concentrates on the use of utterances in a concrete context. We will discuss the most important research areas of pragmatics in this course: inferences (i.e. presuppositions and implicatures; implicit statements that either have to be true for the whole utterance to be true or that follow from what is said), deixis (reference to entities in the context) and speech act theory (conditions and rules for successful communication). In addition to these main areas, topics as politeness, metaphors and irony will be covered as well.
The seminar will be accompanied by reading the book of Levinson (1983), which is made available on the Moodle page.
Active participation as well as a presentation on one of the topics are required. Literature: Levinson, Stephen C. (1983): Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
