SCIENZE UMANISTICHEScience of Language for interculture and educationAcademic Year 2022/2023

9793893 - PRAGMATICA INTERCULTURALE

Teacher: SABINA FONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the main theoretical issues related the dimension of meaning.

Ability to Apply Knowledge and Understanding

The Course aims to promote the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of the main concepts of pragmatics in such a way as to be able to support one's own positions on theoretical problems and solve problems related to this field of research.

Autonomy of judgement

Awareness of the main theoretical issues relating to the dimension of meaning, the boundary between semantics and pragmatics will enable the development of autonomous judgement also in relation to the various models of analysis of the pragmatic dimension that have been developed in the 20th century.

Communication skills

Reflection on communication requires the development of a specialised lexicon that will enable to provide a technical description of the object of study to specialists and non specialists.

Learning skills

The acquisition of learning skills will enable one to undertake subsequent research paths with a high degree of autonomy.

Course Structure

36 hours will be devoted to frontal lessons and to group works including seminars. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Required Prerequisites

Linguistics and in particular syntax, lexicon, semantics should be mastered

Detailed Course Content

The Course aims at attaining a mastery of the field of pragmatics and at developing skills in critical thinking, in communication and in the use of research methodologies. Communication will be approached at a linguistic and cognitive level in different languages. The Course intends to focus not only on the basics of Intercultural Pragmatics and its theoretical developments, but also to provide a methodological toolbox to collect and analyse data.

Textbook Information

Claudia Bianchi, Pragmatica Cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione, Laterza, 2009

Federico Falloppa,

#Odio. Manuale di Resistenza alla violenza delle parole, UTET, 2020

Alessandro Duranti, Etnopragmatica, Carocci, 2009

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	1. pragmatica introduzione e dibattito	Bianchi
2	2. Pragmatica e Filosofia del linguaggio	Bianchi
3	3. Semantica e Pragmatica	Bianchi
4	4. Modello del Codice	Bianchi
5	5. Modello inferenziale	Bianchi
6	6. Grice	Bianchi
7	7. Implicature	Bianchi
8	8. Post-griceani e neogriceani	Bianchi
9	9. Pertinenza	Bianchi
10	10. Austin e atti linguistici	Bianchi
11	11. Atti linguistici	Duranti
12	12. Etnografia e pragmatica	Duranti
13	13. Agentività	Duranti
14	14. Performatività	Duranti
15	15. Processi culturali	Duranti
16	16. Fieldwork	Duranti
17	17. Linguaggio d'odio	Falloppa
18	18. Stereotipizzazioni e pregiudizi	Falloppa

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

As regards the verification of learning, students will be able to present group work (max. 5 persons) that will be based on the application of the main theories of pragmatics and ethnopragmatics to authentic data and on the presentation and discussion of the results of the research work.

If required, students will be able to discuss the program in the traditional manner, i.e. with an oral questions on the scheduled texts are discussed.

The learning assessment may also be conducted at a distance, should the conditions require it.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

With reference to the determinations voted unanimously in item 2 of the Departmental Council meeting of 6 May 2020, the knowledge and skills required to pass the intercultural pragmatics exam are set out below:

knowledge of the difference between semantics and pragmatics;

theoretical discussion of implicit/explicit, implicatures, maxims

theory of linguistic acts;

cognitive pragmatics and linguistics;

inferential model and code model;

neo-Griceans and post-Griceans;

relevance theory;

hate speech;

performativity;

ad hoc concepts;

reading intentions.

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