|
|
PS/MS Pragmatics (AN_MSPragmatics)- Lecturer
- Elodie Winckel, M.A.
- Details
- PS (MS, PO 2020)
Präsenz
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
für FAU Scientia Gaststudierende zugelassen, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Fri 14:00 - 15:30, 0.014
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Two assignments are due during the semester, and student peer-review is expected. Students are also required to write a seminar paper (deadline 15.09).
- Contents
- Talking is not just about generating sounds, not just about putting the right inflection markers in the right place, not just about getting the words in the right order. Talking is also about informing, making people laugh, or blaming someone. Words can hurt, can do good, and can even "change the world".
In this course, we will explore various aspects of pragmatics: information packaging (how information is organized to be conveyed effectively), implicatures (what is said without exactly being said), discourse analysis (the observation of speech in context) and more. We will see that the mutual understanding between interlocutors is based on complex principles, which we learn at a very young age.
Another important aspect of this course will be the learning of methodological skills. During the semester, you will read a scientific article by yourself and present it to your fellow students. At the end of the semester, you will be graded on an final paper (Hausarbeit) of about a dozen pages.
- Recommended literature
- Bublitz, Wolfram, and Christian R. Hoffmann. 2019. Englische Pragmatik: Eine Einführung. 3. neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin: Schmidt, Erich.
Cutting, Joan. 2015. Pragmatics: A Resource Book for Students. Third Edition. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Tuesday, 1.3.2022, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 30.4.2022, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of Teaching Foreign Languages with the Focus of Teaching English Language
|
|
|