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KAA / MPRAG
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MPRAG
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Pragmatics
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 15
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0 / 0
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0 / 3
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 20
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0 / 0
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0 / 1
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/PRAG
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The aim of the course is to introduce basic pragmatic principles and approaches to pragmatic analysis; to focus on the position of pragmatics as a linguistic discipline with regard to semantics and grammar; and to study differences between general grammatical rules and their application in a particular communicative situation. The course focuses i.a. on differences between semantic and pragmatic meaning, deixis, speech acts, relevance theory, implicit meaning, conversational maxims, politeness theories, pragmatic markers and conversation analysis. During the course students will also have an opportunity to analyse selected discourse-pragmatic phenomena in real-life examples of language use.
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Requirements on student
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- class attendance and active class participation (online, MS Teams)
- completion of home assignments
Final course grade based on:
- term paper
- oral exam
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Content
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1) What is pragmatics? Basic concepts in pragmatics
2) Delimitation of pragmatics
3) Deixis and reference
4) Speech act theory
5) Reference and inference
6) Cooperation and implicature
7) Relevance theory
8) Politeness and interaction
9) Conversation analysis
10) Pragmatic markers and interaction
11) Cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics
12) Corpus-based pragmatics
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
BUBLITZ, W., NORRICK, N.R. (eds). Foundations of Pragmatics. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
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Basic:
THOMAS, J. Meaning in Interaction : an introduction to pragmatics. Harlow: Pearson Education, 1995.
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Basic:
CUTTING, J. Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students. London/New York: Routledge, 2002.
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Basic:
BLAKEMORE, D. Understanding Utterances : an introduction to pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
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Further literature:
MEY, J. L. Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009.
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Further literature:
PUTZ, M., NEFF-VAN AERTSELAER, J. Developing Contrastive Pragmatics. Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
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Further literature:
ZIENKOWSKI, J., ÖSTMAN, J-O., VERSCHUEREN, J. Discursive Pragmatics. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.
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Further literature:
GRUNDY, P. Doing Pragmatics. London: Hodder Education, 2008.
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Further literature:
LEVINSON, S.C. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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Further literature:
YULE, G. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Further literature:
CUTTING, J. Pragmatics: a resource book for students. Routledge, 2015.
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Further literature:
ALLEN, K., JASZCZOLT, K. (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Recommended:
CRUSE, A. Meaning in Language : An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Recommended:
HUANG, Y. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Recommended:
ARCHER, D., AIJMER, K. and WICHMAN, A. Pragmatics: an advanced resource book for students. Routledge, 2012.
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Recommended:
CULPEPER, J. and HAUGH, M. Pragmatics and the English Language. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Recommended:
LEECH, G. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1989.
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Recommended:
SIEMUND, P. Speech Acts and Clause Types. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Recommended:
HUANG, Y. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Recommended:
LEECH, G. The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Recommended:
CUMMINGS, L. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia. Oxon: Routledge, 2013.
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Recommended:
SENFT, G. Understanding Pragmatics. London/New York: Routledge, 2014.
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Kontaktní výuka
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26
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Vypracování seminární práce
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20
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Příprava na zkoušku
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26
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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13
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Samostatná kritická četba
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30
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Total
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115
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will be able to differentiate between semantic and pragmatic meaning. They will be able to understand and explain basic pragmatic concepts and apply them when analysing authentic written texts and spoken utterances as well as in their own production. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Methods of individual activities
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Assessment methods |
- Oral examination
- Home assignment evaluation
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