Section outline

  • The course covers the key issues in contemporary pragmatic linguistics: reference and deixis, speech behaviour (speech acts, implicatures, conversational logic) as well as elements of conversational analysis.

    The goal of the course is to present students with an overview of the most important topics in current pragmatic linguistics. The texts to deal with will be both in Czech and in English.

    The course will be completed with students´ short essay (analysis of a text) aimed at certain pragmalinguistic properties dealt with during the semester.

    For the external students, the attestation is based on their active using of moodle.