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.
Additional information on implementation and assessment ? seminar paper 60%
? homework assignments and active participation 40%
