The course aims to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the main topics of pragmatics and to discuss the relationship between discourse and text.
At the end of the course students will be able to analyze conversations and written texts related to most of the problematic aspects of discourse grammar and of text linguistics.
At the end of the course students will be able to analyze conversations and written texts related to most of the problematic aspects of discourse grammar and of text linguistics.
teacher profile teaching materials
2) C. Andorno, Linguistica testuale, Carocci, 2003.
Programme
Language as communication and action, illocutionary act, performative, Grice’s cooperation principle, inferences, implicatures, presuppositions, text and discourse, deixis, anaphora, information structure.Core Documentation
1) C. Caffi, Pragmatica. Sei lezioni, Carocci 2009.2) C. Andorno, Linguistica testuale, Carocci, 2003.
Type of delivery of the course
frontal lessonsType of evaluation
for students attending classes: questions-answers test in class and small composition for students not attending classes: written exam