Teaching

Cognitive Pragmatics

This course has two main aims: first, to discuss key theories and models developed in cognitive pragmatics; and second, to demonstrate their descriptive and explanatory power by applying them to various forms of indirect and non-overt speech, with particular emphasis on the manipulative potential ofassociated with these forms of speech.

To pass this course, students must submit a short project. The aim of the project is to apply a theory discussed in class to a real example of indirect speech or non-overt speech. The example must have a clearly identified source (e.g., a podcast, a television or radio interview, a TV series, a film, or a book). The project should consist of three parts: (1) a very brief presentation of the selected theory, (2) a description of the example to be analyzed, and (3) an application of the theory to the analysis of the example. The project should be prepared as a PowerPoint presentation. Please use no more than two slides for each part. For the purposes of this assignment, pragmatic theories are treated as toolboxes that help identify, describe, and explain specific communicative phenomena.

Pragmatyka (Pragmatics)

A Lecture in Polish