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) a text to be specified among the following: a. C. Bazzanella, Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio, Laterza; b. C. Bianchi, Pragmatica del linguaggio, Laterza; c. C. Bianchi, Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione, Laterza.

Type of delivery of the course

test at the end of the course and a paper about a pragmatically oriented analysis of a fragment of a text.

Type of evaluation

For attending students there will be a written questionnaire during the lessons and the elaboration of a little essay to hand in during one of the exams sessions. Unattending students will have a written exam during one of the exam sessions.