Teacher: dr Hubert Kowalewski
Office hours: Mon 15:00-16:00, Wed 13:30-14:30, or by appointment; room 4B
Email: hubert.kowalewski@umcs.pl
Main course book:
What is pragmatics? Introduction
Deixis and distance
Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 2
Presupposition, implicature, entailment
Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 4 & 5
Presupposition, implicature, entailment (continued)
Speech acts and speech events. Discourse markers
Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 6
Politeness and interaction
Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 7
Conversation and preference structure
Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 8
Test 1
Grice’s Maxims of Conversation
Reading assignment:
Relevance Theory
Reading assignment:
Irony and sarcasm
Reading assignment:
Metaphor and the literal/non-literal distinction
Reading assignment:
Metaphor and the literal/non-literal distinction (continued)
Test 2
Final remarks. Test resits