Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL194) -  Σοφία Μαρμαρίδου

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Course Outline

 

The aim in this course is to examine and discuss how language is used to structure perceived reality into meaningful experience, by focusing on both cognitive and social parameters of linguistic communication.

The aspects of pragmatic meaning investigated include deixis and anaphora (e.g. why “this Sunday” refers to the first Sunday after the speaker’s current utterance); speech acts (e.g. how utterances perform acts such as ordering, asking, inviting, apologizing, thanking, etc., directly or indirectly); presuppositions (i.e. inferences that arise from the use of certain expressions, such as “stop” in “She stopped smoking”, implying that “She used to smoke”); and conversational implicatures (e.g. how it is possible to understand the utterance “Johnny was in your room a while ago” as an answer to the question “Where are my chocolates?” and as implying “Probably Johnny ate your chocolates”). In this framework, tautology, irony, rhetorical questions, and metaphor are also examined from a pragmatic perspective.

The course is offered in the form of lectures, but is essentially practice-based in that it is mainly concerned with the analysis of examples from actual communication events. It is further supported by an extensive bibliography, study material practised in class, and relevant Reading Materials uploaded on e-class. Students are evaluated in terms of an end-of-term exam. Moreover, they may gain up to 1 extra credit, to be added to their final grade, if, by the end of term, they complete 10 worksheets distributed and submitted in class. To claim this extra credit, students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly.

 The course is assessed by the students’ anonymously filling-in of relevant evaluation forms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Τετάρτη 2 Μαρτίου 2011