SYLLABUS
COURSE TITLE
FACULTY/INSTITUTE
COURSE CODE
DEGREE PROGRAMME
FIELD OF STUDY
DEGREE LEVEL
ENGLISH PHILOLOGY
COURSE FORMAT
YEAR AND SEMESTER
NAME OF THE TEACHER
MA STUDIES
FULL TIME STUDIES
BASIC CONTENT
I year, summer semester
Dorota Rut-Kluz Ph.D.
Pragmatics and Para-linguistics
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
FORMA
MODE
STUDIÓW/STUDY
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course encompasses language pragmatics, various ways of discourse analysis and paralinguistics taken as part of. Main interest is given to approaches to discourse such as; Grice’s
speech act theory, pragmatics and conversational analysis. Various ways of analyzing
linguistic politeness and impoliteness are presented, as well as, communication models, the
notion of dialog, the history and a brief review of the current studies in non-verbal
communication and the non-verbal communication structure.
PREREQUISITES
The knowledge of the main issues in linguistics, especially
semantics.
KNOWLEDGE:
1. Student can identify the main issues and representatives of
LEARNING OUTCOMES
functional linguistics.
2. Student defines the main pragmatic and para-linguistic issues.
3. Student knows issues related to discourse analysis.
SKILLS:
1. Student analyzes and critically evaluate pragmatic theories.
2. Student explains issues discussed in class using linguistic
sources.
FINAL COURSE OUTPUT - SOCIAL COMPETENCES
1. Student takes part in class discussion.
2. Student stays open to the opinions of others.
COURSE ORGANISATION –LEARNING FORMAT AND NUMBER OF HOURS
LECTURE; 15 hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Number
of hours
LECTURE SUBJECTS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Formal linguistics and functional linguistics.
Discourse, the definition, approaches to discourse, text analysis.
Pragmatics, speech act theory and conversational analysis.
Linguistic (im)politeness.
Implicature theory (Grice’s theory and the theory of relevance).
Non-verbal communication.
Test.
TOTAL TIME:
2
3
3
2
2
2
1
15
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
REQUIREMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS
GRADING SYSTEM
Lecture
Written test
TOTAL STUDENT WORKLOAD
NEEDED TO ACHIEVE EXPECTED
LEARNING OUTCOMES EXPRESSED
IN TIME AND ECTS CREDIT POINTS
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
INTERNSHIP
MATERIALS
WORKLOAD: 30 hours, 2 ECTS,
To complete the course one needs to attend the lectures
and score 60% of the total points on the written test.
ENGLISH
NONE
PRIMARY OR REQUIRED BOOKS/READINGS:
1. Yule George. 2008. Pragmatics. Oxford University Press:
Oxford.
2. Calero Henry. 2005. The Power of Nonverbal
Communication. Silver Lake Publishing: Los Angeles.
3. Kalisz Roman. 2001. Językoznawstwo Kognitywne w
Świetle Językoznawstwa Funkcjonalnego. Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego: Gdańsk.
4. Levinson Steven. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge.
5. Pikor-Niedziałek Marta. LinguisticPoliteness versus
Impoliteness.
Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu
Rzeszowskiego: Rzeszów.
6. Schiffrin Deborah. 2004. Approaches to Discourse.
Blackwell: Oxford.
7. Horn L. and G. Ward. 2007. The Handbook of Pragmatics.
Blackwell: Oxford.
SUPPLEMENTAL OR OPTIONAL BOOKS/READINGS:
1. Chruszczewski Piotr. 2002. The Communicational
Grammar. Logos Verlag: Berlin.
2. Tabakowska Elżbieta. 2006. Ikoniczność Znaku.
Universitas: Kraków.
3. Załazińska Aneta. 2006. Niewerbalna Struktura Dialogu.
Universitas: Kraków.
4. Żydek-Bednarczuk Urszula. 2005. Wprowadzenie do
Lingwistycznej Analizy Tekstu. Universitas: Kraków.