SEMINAR 15. PRAGMATICS OF THE SENTENCE

Plan

1. The concern of pragmatics and its difference from that of semantics.

2. Reference force and effect. Proposition: illocution. Illocutionary force, perlocutionary effect – the basic notions of pragmatics.

3. A speech event and a speech act. Schema. A cooperative principle as the main condition of success of communication.

4. Performatives and Constatives.

5. Relations between utterances.

Questions and Tasks:

1. What is pragmatics concerned with?
2. What is the difference between syntax, semantics and pragmatics?
3. What is the advantage and disadvantage of studying language via pragmatics?
4. What is a speech act?
5. Name the three related acts the action performed by producing an utterance, consist of.
6. What is the most obvious device for indicating the illocutionary force of the utterance?
7. Name the five types of general functions performed by speech acts.
8. Speak about Direct and Indirect Speech acts.

References:

1. Никитин М.В. Курс лексической семантики: Учебное пособие к курсам языкознания, лексикологии и теоретической грамматики. / М.В. Никитин. – СПб.: Научный центр проблем диалога, 1996. – С. 619-753.
2. Jule, George. Pragmatics. // Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Series Editor H. Y. Widdowson. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. – 138 с.
3. Widdowson H. Y. Linguistics. // Oxford Introductions to Language Study. Series Editor H. Y. Widdowson. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. – С. 61-68.

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