COD 2008 - G453
Pragmatics: "How to Do Things with Words"
Teachers of language and literature.
2
sessions, start: 19-May
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2008
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
ESSARP Schools
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Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
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Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 19 May 2008 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
2 | 26 May 2008 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Martha Patricia De Cunto
Teachers of language and literature.
- Raising pragmatic awareness.
- Applying main pragmatic theoretical frameworks to literary texts and sitcoms.
First session: An introduction to Pragmatics. Grice's Theory of Conversational Implicature. Austin Theory of Speech Acts.
Second session: Theory of Politeness. Application of theory to Literary extracts and sitcoms.
- Presentation and discussion of theoretical frameworks.
- Analyzing two texts from the perspective of the theoretical frameworks. Extracts will be taken from Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire". It will also be applied to scenes from two sitcoms: Desperate Housewives and Seinfeld.
- Discussing how the framework can be applied to their teaching material.
Austin, J. L. (1962) How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Bennison, N. (1998) "Accessing character through conversation in Professional Foul". In Culpeper, J., Short, M. and Verdonk, P. (eds) (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London and New York: Routledge.
Brown, P. & Levinson, S. (1978) Politeness. Some universals in language usage. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Buck,R.A. and Austin,T.R. (1995) "Dialogue and power in E.M.Foster's Howards End". In Verdonk, P. and Weber, J. J. (eds) (1995) Twentieth-Century Fiction. From Text to Context, London and New York: Routledge.
Frank, J. (1989) "You call that a rhetorical question? Forms and Functions of Rhetorical Questions in Conversation" In Journal of Pragmatics 14 (1990).
Grice, H. P. (1981) "Presuppostion and Conversation Implicature", in P. Cole (ed.) Radical Pragmatics, New York: Academic Press, 183-198
Grundy, P. (1995) Doing Pragmatics, Great Britain: Arnold.
Giora, R. (1991) "On the cognitive aspects of the joke", Journal of Pragmatics 16: 465-485.
Herman, V. (1998) Chapter 3. "Turn management in drama". In Culpeper, J. Short, M. and Verdonk, P. (eds) (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London and New York: Routledge.
Leech, G. N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics, London: Longman
Levinson, S. (1983) Pragmatics. London: Cambridge University Press.
Webber, J. J. (1998) Chapter 9. "Three models of power in David Mamet's Oleanna". In Culpeper, J. Short, M. and Verdonk, P. (eds) (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London: Routledge.