Einführung in die Pragmatik und Diskurs

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová & Andrea Horbach

General course description in Vorlesungsverzeichnis SS 2011

Die Nachklausur findet am 22. September statt.

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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.