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Kommentar |
This is a seminar for MEd- and MA-students only.
Relevance theory, developed by Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber, is a theory of cognition and communication that has become a prominent framework within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Sharing a basic outlook on the meaning and interpretation of utterances with Paul Grice's approach (the key notions of which are 'cooperative principle', ' conversational maxims', 'implicature'), while also deviating from the Gricean approach in important respects, relevance theory belongs to the family of 'post-Gricean' inferential pragmatic theories. In this seminar, students will first be introduced to relevance theory by discussing key texts by Grice and Wilson & Sperber. The discussion will then turn to the specific question of what relevance theory has to say about the meaning and interpretation of words and the representation of word meaning in the mental lexicon. That is, the second part of the seminar will provide an introduction to what has come to be called 'lexical pragmatics', by studying and discussing recent (partly very recent) work in this field.
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Literatur |
Will be supplied in the university library and/or in Moodle. |
Voraussetzungen |
Registration via WUSEL during the official registration period is obligatory.
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Leistungsnachweis |
unbenoteter Studiennachweis: Studium der dem Seminar zugrundeliegenden Texte; Bearbeitung der sich auf diese Texte beziehenden Aufgaben; aktive Beteiligung an den Besprechungen dieser Texte und Aufgaben während der Seminarsitzungen zur Einübung des sprachwissenschaftlichen Argumentierens; Durchführung einer Diskussionsleitung bzw. eines Referates
Modulprüfung: Seminararbeit ("schriftliche Hausarbeit") (siehe die fachspezifischen Bestimmungen der relevanten Prüfungsordnung) |
Zielgruppe |
MA: LING 1a, 1b, 2
MEd GymGe, BK: EN Ia; M-ENG7
MEd biling. Unterricht: ENG-S1
MA Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften: Z-LING |