Linguistic Pragmatics: relations between text and context; illocutionary force; Theory of Speech Acts; Cooperation Principle, conversational maxims, implicatures; Relevance Theory; Presuppositions; Information Structure.
teacher profile teaching materials
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).
Programme
- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.
Core Documentation
- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).