Inhalt
| Kommentar |
This is a seminar for BA-students only.
Historically, linguistic pragmatics has grown out of observations that syntactic and semantic knowledge are not sufficient to account for some aspects of the meaning of utterances. For example, it has been argued that a complete description of the meaning of 'I went to Cologne yesterday.' implies that we know who the producer of this utterance is and when this utterance was made; that is, it implies knowledge of the context of the utterance. Or, it has been argued that for the interpretation of an utterance like 'I promise to donate 10,000 € to Greenpeace.' (uttered by the Pope, say) it is not sufficient to consider truth conditions (semantics); for this utterance is rather subject to conditions that determine whether the act of promising is successful (felicity conditions). This seminar will provide an introduction to the core concepts that are involved in discussions of meaning aspects that, arguably, go beyond the domain of semantics: implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts). We will also take a closer look at relevance theory, which claims to provide a framework for explaining utterance interpretation as the result of mental processing of semantic information in combination with contextual assumptions on the basis of universal cognitive principles.
|
| Literatur |
The following pages from the following book will underlie the discussion in most of the seminar sessions:
Birner, Betty J. 2013. Introduction to pragmatics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; pages 22-35, 40-74, 77-82, 110-138, 146-172, 175-204. Participants must be in possession of these texts by the beginning of the seminar.
Additional texts will be supplied in the university library and/or in Moodle. |
| Voraussetzungen |
Registration via WUSEL during the official registration period.
It is highly recommended that students complete module ANG-B1 first.
|
| Leistungsnachweis |
unbenoteter Studiennachweis: Studium der dem Seminar zugrundeliegenden Texte; Bearbeitung der sich auf diese Texte beziehenden Aufgaben; aktive Beteiligung an den Besprechungen dieser Texte und Aufgaben während der Seminarsitzungen zur Einübung des sprachwissenschaftlichen Argumentierens; Durchführung einer Diskussionsleitung bzw. eines Referates; schriftlicher Test
Modulprüfung: Seminararbeit ("schriftliche Hausarbeit"); siehe die fachspezifischen Bestimmungen der relevanten Prüfungsordnung. |
| Zielgruppe |
BA: ANG-F-B3, ANG-G-B3, ANG-H-AB3, ANG-P-AB3
|
Anmelden