The course called Pragmatics is an introduction to the study of pragmatics for students of English at the Faculty of Education. It introduces and discusses the following notions:
Relations between pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines, notably semantics and syntax. Deixis and distance. Reference and inference. Presupposition and entailment. The cooperative principle. Conversational and conventional implicatures. Speech acts and events. Direct and indirect speech acts. Politeness and interaction. Conversation and preference structure. Discourse and culture.
- Teacher: Renata Povolná