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    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:

    • Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.

  • Topic 1

    What is pragmatics? Introduction

  • Topic 2

    Deixis and distance


    Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 2

  • Topic 3

    Presupposition, implicature, entailment


    Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 4 & 5

  • Topic 4

    Presupposition, implicature, entailment (continued)

  • Topic 5

    Speech acts and speech events. Discourse markers

    Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 6

  • Topic 6

    Politeness and interaction


    Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 7

  • Topic 7

    Conversation and preference structure


    Reading assignment: Yule, chapter 8


  • Topic 8

    Test 1

  • Topic 9

    Grice’s Maxims of Conversation


    Reading assignment:

  • Topic 10

    Relevance Theory


    Reading assignment:

  • Topic 11

    Irony and sarcasm


    Reading assignment:

  • Topic 12

    Metaphor and the literal/non-literal distinction


    Reading assignment:


  • Topic 13

    Metaphor and the literal/non-literal distinction (continued)

  • Topic 14

    Test 2

  • Topic 15

    Final remarks. Test resits