PRAGMATICS AND COMMUNICATION

The course is structured in dialogical and frontal lectures, individual and group erxercises, self-evalutative reflections concerning the several contents and issues dealt with

1. Introduction to linguistic pragmatics (2CFU): scope, theorethical principles and methodological approaches. The influence of context on interpretation and the influence of language on context (speech act theory: Austin and Searle). The Cooperation Principle (Grice). Conversation analysis.

B) Different theories on politeness (4CFU): normative (conduct books) and strategic: Brown & Levinson’s Face saving view; the Logic of Politeness (Lakoff) and the Politeness Principle (Leech). Pragmatic analysis of polite speech acts (compliments) and of polite conversation

1. Introduction to pragmatics (2 CFU).

Texts:

1. Bianchi C. 2003, Pragmatica del linguaggio, Bari, Laterza, pp.170

2. Levinson S. C. 1993, La struttura della conversazione, in La pragmatica, Bologna, Il 
Mulino, pp. 357-453

B. Verbal Politeness (4 CFU).

1. Lakoff R., 1978 La logica della cortesia, in M. Sbisà (ed.), Gli atti linguistici, Feltrinelli, pp. 220-230.
2. Leech G. 1983, A survey of the interpersonal rhetoric, in Principles of Pragmatics, Longman, Chapter 6, pp. 131-151.?
3. Brown & Levinson, 1987, Politeness: some universals in languge usage, Cambridge University Press (pp. 55-227).
4. Alfonzetti G. 2009, I complimenti nella conversazione, Editori Riuniti, University Press (pp. 180).

5. Alfonzetti G., “Mi lasci dire”. La conversazione nei galatei. Bulzoni 2017 (pp. 250).