Einführung in die Pragmatik und Diskurs
Alexis Palmer (office hour: Monday 14-15, C72, 2.08)Andrea Horbach (office hour: Wednesday 14-15, C72, 1.04)
Meeting times: Monday, 8:30-10am, 12:30-2pm
General course description in
Vorlesungsverzeichnis SS 2014
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Themes
- Common ground. Context. Pragmatic inferences.
- Reference. Discourse model. Givenness and familiarity. Salience. Anaphoric reference, coreference and bridging. Anaphora resolution. Generation of referring expressions.
- Conversational Implicatures. Gricean cooperative principle and maxims of conversation.
- Presuppositions. Semantic and pragmatic theories. Presupposition projection.
- Information structure.
- Discourse coherence. Discourse relations.
- Speech acts (conversation acts). Grounding and grounding acts.
- Conversation structure analysis. Dialogue modeling.