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School of Humanities
Professor Carita Paradis
Autumn semester 2006
PragmaticsGraduate course (5 credits)
AimsThis course serves to:
to provide a picture of the domain of pragmatics as a field of
linguistic inquiry to present the central topics of inquiry:
implicature, presupposition, deixis and reference to introduce
different approaches to pragmatics: the Gricean and the Neo-Gricean
approach,
Speech Act Theory, Relevance Theory and Cognitive
Linguistics
Theoretical contents
Fundamentals, implicature and presupposition. Conventional and
conversational implicature Deixis, reference,
definiteness/indefiniteness and speech acts Relevance theory
Pragmatics and its interfaces
(i) Pragmatics and cognition,(ii) Pragmatics and semantics(iii)
Pragmatics and syntax
Examination
Oral presentations Written assignments
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Vxj University Pelarplatsen 7 351 95 Vxj SwedenTelephone +46 470
70 81 20 Telefax +46 470 75 18 88 E-mail: [email protected]
www.vxu.se/hum/utb/amnen/engelska/cpa/
Course literature (selection)Abbott, B. 2004. Definiteness and
indefiniteness. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn &
G.
Ward. Oxford: Blackwell.
Atlas, J. 2004. Presupposition. The handbook of pragmatics, ed.
by L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Austin, J. L. 1962.How to do things with words. Oxford:
Clarendon.Blakemore, D. 1992 Understanding Utterances. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Blakemore, D. 2002. Relevance and linguistic meaning: the
semantics and pragmatics of discourse
markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carlson, G. 2004. Reference. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by
L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Carston, Robyn 2002. Thoughts and utterances. Oxford:
Blackwell
Gibbs, R. 1999. Speaking and thinking with metonymy.Metonymy in
language and thought, ed. by
K-U Panther & G. Radden.Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publishing
Company.
Gibbs, R. & M. Tendahl. 2006. Cognitive effort and effects
in metaphor comprehension: relevance
theory and psycholinguistics.Mind & language
21.3.379-403.Giora, R. 2003. On our mind: salience, context and
figurative language. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Glucksberg, S. 2003. The psycholinguistics of metaphor. Trends
in Cognitive Science 7.2.92-96.
Grice, H. P. 1975. Logic and conversation. Syntax and semantics
3, ed. by P. Cole & J. Morgan.
New York: Academic press.
Huang, Y. 2006. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Horn, L. 2004. Implicature. The handbook of pragmatics, ed. by
L. Horn & G. Ward. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Horn, L. & G. Ward (eds.). 2004. The handbook of pragmatics.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Levinson, S. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Levinson, S. Presumptive meanings. the theory of generalized
conversational implicature.Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.
Panther, K-U & L. Thornburg (eds.) 2003. Pragmatic
inferencing in metonymy. Introduction.
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company.
Panther K-U & Linda Thornburg (eds.)2003. Metonymy and
pragmatic inferencing. Amsterdam &
Philadelphia. John Benjamins.
Searle, J. 1979. Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Searle, J. 1975. Indirect Speech Acts. Syntax and semantics 3,
ed. by P. Cole & J. Morgan. New
York: Academic Press.
Sperber, D & D. Wilson. 1995 (1986).Relevance: communication
& cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
Verscheuren, J. 1998. Understanding pragmatics. London:
Arnold.
Wilson, D. & R. Carston. 2006. Metaphor, relevance and the
Emergent property issue.Mind &
language 21.3.404-434.
Wilson, D. & D. Sperber. 2004. Relevance Theory. The
handbook of pragmatics, ed. by L. Horn &
G. Ward. Oxford: Blackwell.
