This course goes beyond the ´classic´
linguistic disciplines, such as phonology, morphology, lexical semantics and
syntax, which focus primarily on the description
of language structures and which typically make only a sporadic reference to
the meaning and/or use of those
structures in the real world. Pragmalinguistics does just that: it is concerned
with how meaning is negotiated when
language structures are used as utterances and what happens to people and
the world. In the
course we will be looking at samples of
language use from the course-book and, more importantly, we will do our own original analyses and
interpretations of the uses of language which we will collect in our own daily
life.
During the course we will
try to answer questions such as
What is
an utterance and what does it mean?
Do utterances mean something in themselves
or it is rather the utterers who mean things?
What ´things´ do we do when we
use language?
Can an utterance/user mean more than what it/they literally says/say?
How are we able to communicate what we mean?
How do we negotiate meaning?
What
kind of knowledge is needed to interpret each other´s meanings? and many others.
- Učiteľ: Milan Ferenčík
- Učiteľ: Zuzana Nováková