Associate Prof. Dr. Rositsa Ishpekova

Lectures: 30

ECTS credits: 3

The aim of the course of lectures in pragmatics is to get the students acquainted
with basic pragmatic issues and categories. Among them are: properties of
everyday language (appropriateness, non-literal or indirect meaning, inference,
indeterminacy, context, relevance, accommodation, reflexivity, misfires), deixis,
Grice’s cooperation principle and implicatures, presupposition and entailment, the
role of context in interpretation (speech situation, speech event, speech act),
politeness phenomena, relevance theory, figurative language (irony, metonymy,
metaphor) and metapragmatic awareness. The goal is to develop skills in correctly
interpreting contextually-determined, subjective and implicit meanings in
monological and dialogical discourse.
The aim of the course of lectures in pragmatics is to get the students acquainted
with basic pragmatic issues and categories. Among them are: properties of
everyday language (appropriateness, non-literal or indirect meaning, inference,
indeterminacy, context, relevance, accommodation, reflexivity, misfires), deixis,
Grice’s cooperation principle and implicatures, presupposition and entailment, the
role of context in interpretation (speech situation, speech event, speech act),
politeness phenomena, relevance theory, figurative language (irony, metonymy,
metaphor) and metapragmatic awareness. The goal is to develop skills in correctly
interpreting contextually-determined, subjective and implicit meanings in
monological and dialogical discourse.