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Objectives and competences

The objectives of the course are to: - learn pragmalinguistic approaches for discourse analysis, - refine knowledge of the communicative functions of linguistic and non-linguistic elements, - approach pragmalinguistic methods for discovering intercultural and interlingual differences in German and Slovenian language communities.

Content (Syllabus outline)

- Aims and tasks of pragmalinguistic disciplines - The notions of discourse and contrastive discourse analysis - Text-producing and text-decoding cognitive strategies in the communication process - Models, classifications and methods for pragmalinguistic text analysis and their contribution to the visualization of intercultural differences: speech acts, conversational maxims, conversational analysis, discourse markers, indexical signs, thematic progression types - Contrastive discourse analysis of selected German and Slovenian texts from different sources (TV talk shows, documentaries, internet pages, commercial clips and brochures)

Learning and teaching methods

- Lectures, - Seminar.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

On completion of this course the student will be able: - distinguish linguistic elements according to their communicative function in texts (with emphasis on linguistic markers or expressions of opinions, emotions and values) - identify the values of text participants and connected goals - identify strategies and argument types used by text participants for approaching their goals - evaluate the similarities and differences of opinions and arguments in German and Slovene texts on controversially discussed social topics.

Readings

- Adamzik, K. 2004: Textlinguistik. Eine einführende Darstellung, Niemeyer, Tübingen. - de Beaugrande, R. A., Dressler, W.U. 1992: Uvod v besediloslovje, Park, Ljubljana. - Brinker, K., Sager, S. F. 1989: Linguistische Gesprächsanalyse. Eine Einführung, Erich Schmidt, Berlin. - Diewald, G. M. 1991: Deixis und Textsorten im Deutschen, Niemeyer, Tübingen. - Jäger, S. 2012 (6. Aufl.): Kritische Diskursanalyse. Eine Einführung. Unrast, Münster. - Martin, J. R., White, P. R. R. 2005: The language of evaluation: Appraisal in English. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Prerequisits

None.

  • doc. dr. TEODOR PETRIČ

  • Seminarska naloga: 60
  • Sprotno delo študenta: 40

  • : 15
  • : 75

  • German
  • German

  • (INTERCULTURAL GERMAN STUDIES) - 1st
  • (INTERCULTURAL GERMAN STUDIES) - 1st
  • (GERMAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE) - 2nd