Pragmatic of Portuguese

Objectives

1. To analyse language in specific communication contexts.

2. To be aware of the multiple levels of the meaning of utterances.

3. To understand that a major part of communication is achieved by other means than “what is said”.

4. To know the things you can do with language.

5. To have a better understanding of human communication.

Program

1. Introduction – preliminary concepts.
2. Pragmatic principles
3. Implicatures.
4. Presuppositions.
5. Dependent reference.
6. Speech acts.

Teaching Methodologies

The course has an important theoretical component, which includes the presentation of the main concepts and theories, and a more practical component, where students are asked to solve multiple exercises using the concepts and theories introduced before. Students are evaluated on the basis of their performance of assigned duties (written tests, written homework to be presented in the classroom). Other homework and class work may increase the student final score.

Bibliography

CRUSE, Alan, 2000, Meaning in Language. 2.ª edição, 2004, Nova Iorque e Oxford: Oxford University Press.

DAVIS, Steven (ed.), 1991, Pragmatics: A reader. Nova Iorque e Oxford: Oxford University Press.

HUANG, Yan, 2006 Pragmatics. New York: Oxford University Press.

LEVINSON, Stephen, 1983, Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MEY, Jacob L., 1993, Pragmatics: an introduction. 2.ª ed., 2001, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Dicionário de Termos Linguísticos – Associação Portuguesa de Linguística http://www.ait.pt/recursos/dic_term_ling/index2.htm

Dicionário de Termos Linguísticos – APL e ILTEC*

http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org/index.php?action=terminology

(*Versão online de XAVIER, M. F. e M. H. Mateus (org.) (1990). Dicionário de Termos Linguísticos, APL e ILTEC, Vol. I, Lisboa: Ed. Cosmos e de XAVIER, M. F. e M. H. Mateus (org.) (1992). Dicionário de Termos Linguísticos, APL e ILTEC, Vol. II, Lisboa: Ed. Cosmos).